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To process public holidays for your part-time employees, you can opt to exclude part-time employees from your public holiday calendar and require them to submit a public holiday leave request, for simpler management of public holidays for part-time employees.
Getting started
Step 1: Create a leave type and policy
- Log into your Employment Hero HR platform.
- Click the Settings menu.
- Click the Leave Settings submenu.
- Click the Add Leave Type button.
- Complete the following fields:
- Leave Type Name
- Leave Balance Tracking.
- Select Track balance accruals and leave taken if you want to add a policy to your leave type. A policy determining the balance and rules that should be assigned to the leave type If track balance accruals and leave taken is selected, the leave type in payroll automatically becomes an Entitlement Based Leave type.
- Select Only track leave taken if you do not wish to track a balance against this leave type. If Only track leave taken is selected, the leave type in payroll automatically becomes a standard leave type.
- Unit Type
- Select Days if your employees take their leave in days.
- Select Hours if your employees take their leave in hours.
- Select whether to Show leave after confirmed date.
- Select whether a Leave reason is required.
- Click the Save button.
- To add a leave policy, complete the following fields:
- Leave Policy Name
- Accrual Starts
- Amount Accrued
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Add an additional tier if you award an additional balance to your employees based on length of service.
- Carry-Over Amount - choose from None, Unlimited or up to X number of days
- Carry-Over Date (Note: your holiday calendar year will default here)
- Pro-Rata for Part Time/Casual Employees (select this option if you want your part-time workers to receive a pro-rated amount of leave)
- Leave Balance for New Employees
- Select Do not apply leave balance to employees on assignment if you want to manually assign balances to your new employees
- Select Apply full balance amount on employee assignment if your employees should receive the full amount of leave assigned to this policy
- Select Apply a pro rata amount on employee assignment if you want your employees to receive a pro-rated leave entitlement based on their start date in the current holiday calendar year (Note: the calculation is based on calendar days in a year)
- Click the Save button.
- To assign the policy to certain employees, drag their name from the Available column to the Selected column.
Helpful Hint
You can click the >> button to move all employees to the Selected column.
- Click the Save button.
Step 2: Create public holiday calendar
- In your Employment Hero HR platform, click the Settings option on the left-hand side menu.
- Click the Locations and Public Holidays option.
- Click the Public Holidays tab.
- Click the Add New Calendar button.
- Tick Exclude part-timers from the public holiday calendar.
Explore related content
- Manage leave This article will provide in-depth information about how to manage leave from a manager's perspective.
- View leave request clashes A manager can view staff leave clashes in the Employment Hero platform, allowing for simple absence planning.