Public holidays

Public holidays are official days off, such as national and religious holidays. When a leave request covers a public holiday, that day is not counted as a leave day. The list shows one year at a time.

From the side menu, open General › Public holidays.

What’s on this screen

• Year — the arrows next to the year move to the previous or next year.
• Add holiday — add a public holiday.
• A table of the year’s holidays; click a row to edit it.

Columns

• Date — the holiday’s date and the day of the week.
• Holiday — the holiday’s name in the interface language.
• Actions — Edit (pencil icon) and Delete (trash icon).

Fields

• Date — required. Only one holiday can be entered per date.
• Arabic name — required.
• English name (optional) — when empty, the Arabic name is also shown in English.

How to add a public holiday

1. Click Add holiday.
2. Pick the Date and enter the Arabic name, and the English name if you want.
3. Click Save holiday. If the date is in another year, the list moves to that year.

For a holiday of several days, add one entry for each day.

How to edit or delete a holiday

1. Click the holiday’s row, or the pencil icon, change the details and click Save changes.
2. To delete, click the trash icon and confirm in the Delete public holiday window.

Note

Deleting a holiday means leave days that fall on that date are counted again. Whether holidays are skipped at all is set in Settings › Leave policy with Skip public holidays.

Required permission

Public Holidays › View. Adding, editing and deleting need Public Holidays › Create, Public Holidays › Edit and Public Holidays › Delete.