Enables you to set up and maintain standard dates on the system. Set up standard dates for any days you need to automatically exclude from calculations of remaining holiday entitlement, general absence etc. Possible examples are public holidays and any other days when your organisation shuts down.

Having set up standard dates you can link together those of a common type in a group. For example, you might link together the dates for public holidays or your organisation’s shutdown period. You must then link groups of dates to group types. This defines the type of calculation they will affect – for example, holiday entitlement remaining.

If required, you can link groups of dates to particular locations. For example, you can apply different holiday entitlement rules to employees at different locations. Or, if your organisation has branches in countries with different public holidays, you can place the national holidays in separate groups and then link them to the relevant locations. If you do not allocate a group of dates to one or more locations the system automatically applies it to all employees in your organisation.

The following steps give the basic method for setting up standard dates and applying them to particular system calculations and employee locations:

1. Create the required standard dates via Maintain Standard Dates.
2. Link standard dates to the relevant group via Maintain Standard Date Groups.
3. Link groups to group types via Maintain Standard Date Group Types.
4. Link groups of standard dates to particular locations If necessary via Standard Date Group Locations.