22.1 Public Holidays
Public Holidays
Jarrison Time can recognize public holidays and apply different rules accordingly.
To manage public holidays click on ‘Setup’ then ‘Public Holidays’. If there are no public holidays in
the list you can add the RSA Standard statutory holidays by clicking the ‘Add Standard’ button, or
simply add your own manually. If you are outside of SA you can add your own country’s holidays by
clicking ‘Add’ under Holiday Calendar. At the beginning of each year Jarrison will prompt you to add
the standard SA holidays, this button will be greyed out the rest of the time.
The holiday calendar can also be used to provide a solution to cases where, for example, employees
would receive normal pay on a public holiday occurring on a Sunday (getting the actual public holiday
on the Monday) where other employees would receive public holiday pay on the Sunday. In such a
situation, one holiday calendar would be created with all public holidays left in, and another created
where the Sunday public holidays have been removed, leaving only the Mondays.
An alternative solution to the Sunday/Monday public holiday would be to create differently functioning
public holiday Day Programs. See Configuration manual for more info on Day Programs.
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