Managing Public Holidays
A short, recurring task with a hard deadline — get the year's holidays in before they affect pay and schedules, not the Friday before.
Adding a holiday
- Go to Settings → Holidays and click Create a Holiday.
- Name it and set its date. Repeat for each holiday in your jurisdiction's calendar.
- Holidays then appear on the company events calendar and the employee dashboard, and they inform how worked and time-off days are treated around them.
Do it once a year, in advance
The Caribbean public-holiday calendar shifts year to year — some holidays move, some are announced late. Load the whole year at the start of the year while you have the official list in front of you. A holiday added after a pay run has already treated that day as a normal working day means corrections; a holiday added in advance just works.
How holidays interact with pay and leave
- Time off around holidays. A leave type can be set to skip workdays and holidays, so an employee taking a week's vacation that contains a public holiday isn't charged a leave day for the holiday. That behavior is the leave type's ignore workdays and holidays setting — see time-off setup.
- Holiday pay rates. Work performed on a holiday is paid through your holiday pay code at whatever multiplier you've set (commonly 2×). The holiday calendar tells the system which days those are.
- Schedules. Holidays show on the work schedule grid so managers don't unintentionally roster people on a day off.
Different islands, different holidays
If you operate across territories, your holiday list differs by location — Bahamas and Jamaica don't share a calendar. Maintain the full set your workforce spans, and lean on the island and division filters elsewhere in the system to keep each location's people aligned to their own dates.