Recurring Holidays

Recurring Holidays are holidays that repeat each year. TimeTrex allows you to enter these holidays just one time, and it automatically applies them in each subsequent year. The holidays you setup here feed the Recurring Holiday drop-down list that is found when you create the Holiday Policies.

Most holidays (especially those in North America) can be configured as recurring holidays; you will not need to remember to manually create them each year.

It is important to note that on a nightly basis, Recurring Holidays are automatically added to the Holiday tab in each Holiday Policy that the Recurring Holiday is assigned to. Therefore if you create or modify a Recurring Holiday it may not appear in that tab or on employees timesheets until the next day, or until 60 days prior to when the holiday is scheduled to occur. In order to add holidays retroactively or on a manual basis you must edit the Holiday Policy, click on the Holiday tab and create a new holiday record in this tab, then recalculate any employees timesheets that may be affected by this change.

See the Basic Operation section for details on viewing, adding, editing and deleting.

 

Recurring Holiday Tab FIELD DESCRIPTION Special Day Used to determine special holidays that do not occur on a regular schedule, such as Good Friday or Easter. Type Specifies the type of recurring holiday. TYPE DESCRIPTION Static Holidays that occur on the same day of the same month each year. Dynamic - Week Interval Holidays that occur on a specific week on the same month each year. FIELD DESCRIPTION Week Interval The week of the month that the holiday occurs on. For example, you might specify a Thanksgiving holiday as the 4th Thursday in November. Day of Week The day of the week that the holiday occurs on. Dynamic - Pivot Day Holidays that occur on or around another day of the same month each year. For example, you might configure the holiday to occur on the Friday that occurs before the 8th day of May. FIELD DESCRIPTION Day of Week The day of the week that the holiday occurs on. Pivot Direction This field determines whether the holiday occurs Before, After, On or Before, or On or After the Day of the Month. Day Modifier Specifies a recurring holiday that occurs relative to another holiday, either before or after. Commonly used for policies affecting overnight shifts that begin on one day and extend into a holiday. Example: If December 25 is the recurring holiday, set the Day Modifier to +1 to apply settings to December 26, or -1 for December 24. Always on Week Day This adjusts the holiday so it always occurs on a week day.