Public Holidays

Administrators can add public holidays for all the countries and regions in which your employees are based. When Leavetrack calculates the number of days used by an absence, it takes into account any public holidays in the employee's country. As an example, if an employees takes holiday from Monday-Friday and the Monday is a public holiday, that booking will only use four days from the employee's entitlement, not five.

There are two approaches you can take when setting an entitlement for your employees:

Net of public holidays: If your workplace is closed on a public holiday then you would set your employees' entitlements net of public holidays. As an example, if the employee receives 20 days leave and there are 10 public holidays, add the public holidays to Leavetrack and set the entitlement to 20 days.

Inclusive of public holidays: If you are open on public holidays so the employee has flexibility on when they take their holiday, do not add public holidays to the system but instead add the relevant number of days to the employee entitlement. In the previous example, you would set the entitlement to 30 days.

Leavetrack allows you to automatically import public holidays for your locations to save the administration of adding them manually.

Go to Account > Public Holidays > Import Public Holidays

You choose which country's public holidays you wish to import, for which year and the location to which they should be applied.

You are then presented with a list of applicable public holidays for the country you have selected. You can then individually select which holidays should be attached to your account.

In the example above, as our location is London, we would only import the public holidays in England.