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Why is it important to choose selecting the right public holiday calendar important?

The main purpose of the public holiday calendar is mainly used to mark public holidays as such in the journal, in the calendar overview or in the group calendar (green coloring).

Vacation requests: for each public vacation in a vacation period, of course, no vacation day is used up for any holiday within a vacation period, even if it concerns public for holidays that only some of the employees in an organization can consume take (e.g. if when persons with of the Protestant religious affiliation faith have a public holiday on Good Friday guaranteed by the company a works agreement, whereas for other employees with other members of the workforce with a different or no religious affiliation, Good Friday is noted entered in the calendar as a normal working day).

Where is the public holiday calendar entered?

The public holiday calendar is selected in the person's master record in the tab Settings/Time recording [LINK follows soon]  tab under “Public holiday calendar”tracking under "Holiday calendar".
As a rule, the selection is made when the person is created.
A later change may be necessary, for example, if the person's place of work location changes (new locationsite) and other different regional public holidays apply at the new locationsite.

What needs to be taken into account considered when creating a new person?

If your organization has locations that are sites located in another federal a different state or in another a different country and you create a person who does works not work at the headquarters of your organization's headquarters but at another locationsite, please be sure to assign the person's future location site (“Groups” tab "Groups") before selecting you select the holiday calendar.
This step is necessary as because the display of the available public holiday calendars may be tied to the locationsite!

The most important public holiday calendars for Austria

It is relevant What matters for the selection whether certain days are classified as public holidays or as working days in is whether the collective agreement relevant for to the person to be processed being edited or in the current company agreement if works agreement classifies certain days as holidays or as working days when they fall on a day other than a Sunday.
Specifically, these are Dec. 24 and Dec. 12. and 31 .12. of each year.

The following public holiday calendars for Austria are available as standard for Austria:

by default:

What do I need to take into account consider when changing the public holiday calendar?

Any Every change is also applied retroactively and automatically retroactive. It is therefore important to check , before making a change, to check whether there is an open leave vacation request or other another absence request that includes a day that is valued differently due to will be evaluated differently because of a change in to the public holiday calendar.

Please also do not carry out run any retroactive accounting recalculations for other reasons that go back in time beyond the date on which the public holiday calendar was changed, as this may result in undesirable changes to the leave quotareach back further into the past than the effective date of the holiday calendar change, as this can lead to undesired changes to the vacation allowance!

Example: an employee who works in St. Pölten and has entered the holiday calendar Austria-NÖ public holiday calendar applies for leave from Lower Austria entered requests vacation from Nov. 11 to 22, 2024. 11Because Nov. 2024. As 15 .11 is automatically work-free for him, it is stated that this application represents a leave consumption a day off for this employee, the request is shown as a vacation usage of 9 days.
Before the vacation request is approved, the employee is transferred to Vienna, and the “Austria statutory” calendar "Austria statutory" applies. As a result of the change, the vacation consumption usage for Nov. 11 to 22.11., 2024 is now 10 days, as because Nov. 15 .11 is considered evaluated as a normal working day.

What else needs to be considered?

The An important next important step after selecting the appropriate public holiday calendar is to define the working times for public holidays in the weekly programschedule.

This is particularly relevant if Dec. 24 or Dec. 12. or 31.12. are considered a working day if 31 count as working days when these two dates do not fall on a Sunday.
It is also equally relevant if the commercial retail holiday calendar applies , but a different rule applies for has to be applied to the Christmas Saturdays (= the 4 Saturdays before the Sundays of Advent Sundays) than for to Saturdays outside the Advent weeks.

You can find more information on this under “Creating "Setting up Christmas and New Year's Eve correctly/daily programs Daily schedules for Dec. 24 and Dec. 12. and 31.12” [LINK follows soon].

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Please therefore make sure that the correct working times are entered for all weekdays, but also as well as for public holidays or and other exceptions, so that no subsequent corrections are necessary!

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