Do public holidays deduct from employee allowances?

Depending on your company policy, you may wish for public holidays to deduct (or not) from your leave allowance.

Leave Dates can accommodate either scenario

Public holidays do not deduct from an allowance

The public holiday functionality in Leave Dates treats holidays as non-working days, similar to weekends. Therefore, any holidays set up in this way will not deduct from employee allowances.

To configure Leave Dates in this way, follow the steps in this guide

Public holidays do deduct from an allowance

To deduct public holidays from an allowance, the leave request process should be used, rather than the public holiday functionality. 

• Remove any setup in the Settings > Holidays page.
• Set up a leave type called Public holidays that deducts from the allowance. Guide to setting up leave types
• Request the public holiday dates for all staff using our multi-person request form. Guide to requesting leave for multiple people

By adding the public holidays as leave records, they will deduct in the same way as annual leave.