Depending on your company policy it's possible Charlie can either include public holidays within team member's overall holiday allowance (deductible public holidays) or for public holidays to be booked off in addition (non-deductible). This article outlines each option, and the use cases for each. If you have more than one holiday policy set up you can choose to include or exclude public holidays for either.
Exclude public holidays from allowances (in addition to the allowance)
What this means:
Charlie will not deduct public holidays from your team members' individual time off allowance, this is better suited for companies that do not have part time team members.
How does this work?
If your company default allowance is 28 days, then a UK-based, full-time team member will automatically get:
28 bookable days each year
8 additional bank holidays each year
These public holidays don't count towards their "total days used" in Charlie and won't come out of their allowance.
You will be able to see the public holidays on their profiles.
How to set this up in CharlieHR
This is the default setting on the policy present when you create a new CharlieHR account. For any additional holiday policies you will set this up in the creation process.
Include public holidays in allowances (included in the allowance)
What this means:
Charlie will deduct all public holidays from your team members' allowances.
If you have part time team members, this is the fairest way to manage their allowance. You can set part time working weeks for your part time team members, and any public holidays that fall on days they don't work will not be deducted from their allowance. Any team members who's time off is counted in hours will need to book off time on public holidays.
How does this work?
If your default company allowance is 28 days, then a UK-based, full-time team member will automatically get:
20 bookable days each year
8 pre-approved bank holidays each year automatically booked and taken from their allowance.
How to set this up in CharlieHR
You can set a holiday policy to include Public Holidays by making sure the 'Included in the allowance' option is selected.
FAQ:
I have team members based in different countries with different public holidays?
You can group your team into offices depending on where they are based, and then apply different country or regional public holidays to your team based on their office. Their public holidays will then be treated in the same way as the examples above.
Want to turn off public holidays for an office or team?
You can turn public holidays off completely for an office, which stops them from displaying or being factored into people's time off calculations.
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