Creating Holidays

Prerequisites

Before creating holiday(s) for an organization, make sure that you have completed the following tasks in SecurTime:

• Creating an Affiliate(s)
• Adding Employee Groups

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Creating Holidays for an Affiliate

To create and add holidays to an affiliate of an organization

1. Select Organization >Holidays from SecurTime side menu. The Holidays main page is displayed.
2. Click on +New Holiday to add a new holiday type to an affiliate. The Create Holiday page is displayed.

3. Select the affiliate where you want to add the holiday type from Select Affiliate.
4. Select the date for which you want to create the holiday in Date.
5. Enter the name of the holiday in Name.

 Note : Holiday dates with different names are allowed; but duplicate holiday names are not allowed.

6. Select the appropriate holiday type from Select Holiday Type. There are two pre-configured holiday types:

• Festival—Select this option if the holiday that you are adding is a festival, for example, Spring Festival.
• National—Select this option if the holiday that you are adding is a national holiday, for example, Republic Day.

 Note : 

Festival holidays can be configured as mandatory and optional holidays. 

If the Festival type is selected, a checkbox is displayed where you can specify that it is an optional holiday.

The employees can avail the optional holidays at their discretion (this feature is yet to be developed). 

7. Select the employee group for which the holiday that you are creating is applicable, from Select Employee Group.
8. Click Save to save the holiday configuration. The newly added holiday is displayed in the Holidays main page.

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