Bank Holidays

 
With Bank Holidays, public and company holidays can be handled in an automatic way. This module can refer to multiple official calendars by country regions which can be further optimized. New calendars can also be created.
Users will need the permissions View/Edit Employee Schedule Configuration (included in HR role).
 
To work with bank holidays, go to Configuration - Bank Holidays:
 
Bank holidays in Astrow Web
 

Components

 
Calendars: The menu operates mainly with calendars further linked to employees in Employees definition. A calendar consists in a set of bank holidays.
 
Calendars in Bank holidays in Astrow Web
Predefined regions calendars: Users can anytime consult one of the predefined official calendars applied in their region. However this works only as view, bank holidays must be afterwards added to the calendar, if applicable. Press the button to download the predefined official calendars. After download, predefined regions calendars can be used by all users with permissions View or Edit Employee Schedule Configuration.
 
Downloading predefined calendars in Bank holidays in Astrow Web
 
Here is an example of predefined calendar view in multiple selection (select the button ):
 
Predefined calendars in Bank holidays in Astrow Web
 
Bank holidays: Once defined a calendar, you can define the bank holidays (recurrent for a period or only one time). The module allows multiple add, however editing and deleting is done one by one.
 
Bank holidays in Calendars in Astrow Web
 
Color mark codes for bank holidays:
 
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Mark for recurrence.
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Mark for overlap in more calendars.
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Preset official bank holiday (view only, not yet defined in Astrow).
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Calendar selection for definition.
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Calendar definition in Astrow.
 
 
Bank holidays definition: This allows a single or multiple bank holiday definition.
 
Bank holiday definition in Astrow Web
 
To work with bank holidays in an efficient way, do the following:
 
1. Define a new calendar (see Add, Edit and Delete a Calendar).
2. Check the official predefined calendar.
3. Define the bank holidays for your calendar (see Add, Edit and Delete Bank Holidays).
4. Link the calendar to employees (see Set Bank Holiday).
 
For visualization, it is possible to select multiple calendars with the button :
 
Multiple select in Bank holidays in Astrow Web