1. Click the Settings menu.
2. In the Time & Attendance section, click Public Holidays.
3. Click the Add New Calendar button.
4. Click the Standard Public Holiday Calendar tick box.
5. Complete the following fields.
   • Name.
   • Locations.
   • Standard public holiday calendar.
6. Click the Submit button at the bottom of the page.
    

1. Click the Settings menu.
2. In the Time & Attendance section, click Public Holidays.
3. Click the Add New Calendar button.
   
4. Click the Custom Holiday Calendar tick box.
   
5. Complete the following fields:
   • Name.
   • Locations.
   • Year.

6. Click the Add New button to enter your custom public holiday.
    

   Helpful Hint

   Click the Remove button to delete a custom calendar entry.

7. Click the Submit button.
    

1. Click the Settings menu.
2. In the Time & Attendance section, click Public Holidays.
3. Click the Actions button.
4. Click the Edit button.
    

5. Make the required changes and click the Submit button
    

   Warning

   When editing a public holiday calendar, Employment Hero will prevent you from removing any holiday date that has a leave request attached to it, which you can see when the platform greys out a public holiday date.

   
    

1. Click the Settings menu.
2. In the Time & Attendance section, click Public Holidays.
3. Click the Actions button.
4. Click the Delete button.
5. Click the Confirm button.
    

1. Click the Settings menu.
2. In the Time & Attendance section, click Public Holidays.
3. Toggle the "Show public holidays on leave calendars" option on or off to control whether public holidays are displayed in leave calendars.
   
4. Change the "Public Holiday Colour" to control the colour by which public holidays are displayed on leave calendars.

Administrators can assign three granular, independent permission levels for Public Holidays management in Custom Security Settings[cite: 44]:

• View (Read): Provides read-only access to lists, details, and data exports[cite: 59].
• Modify (Write): Allows users to create new records and edit existing records (includes View)[cite: 60].
• Delete (Remove): Allows users to delete records (includes View, but does NOT include Create/Edit)[cite: 61].

Note: These permissions are not cascading[cite: 62]. For full management access, a user must be granted both Modify and Delete levels[cite: 51, 62].

1. Click the Settings menu.
2. Click Permissions (under the General section).
3. Select the Permission Group you wish to edit or create a new group[cite: 55].
4. Navigate to the General permissions tab[cite: 46, 57].
5. Locate Public Holidays and select the appropriate checkboxes: View, Modify, or Delete[cite: 56].
6. Click Save[cite: 57]. Changes take effect immediately for assigned users[cite: 57].

Note: The "Use" checkbox is blocked; selecting all three levels (View + Modify + Delete) is equivalent to full management access[cite: 57, 63].

At this stage, only the Standard Public Holiday Calendars for your organisation's original country use on your platform are available. For example, if you set up your original country as Australia, you will only be able to access the Australian standard public holiday calendar. This remains the case even if you later add a New Zealand country location to your platform.

For any custom public holiday calendars, these will need to be updated every year, as they are not auto-updated by the platform.

Where multiple public holiday calendars have been set up and linked to a particular location, all the public holidays combined within both calendars will apply to the employees who are classified under that location.

Newly created Public Holidays will only be applied to any future Leave Requests that have not yet been submitted by employees.

Yes. All creation, editing, and deletion of public holiday records, as well as changes to permission assignments, are logged in the Organisation Audit Trail Report with actor details and timestamps[cite: 39, 42, 65].