Workforce.com includes templates containing the dates of State and Federal public holidays. You can apply these templates by following the steps below. Local show days that are determined by your local council government are not included in these templates - you can add your local show day holiday following the steps below.
Selecting your public holiday region
Navigate to Settings > All Settings > General
Select your Public Holiday Region to apply Pre-Built Holidays
Tip: As highlighted above, click 'Show Pre-Built Holidays' to expand a list of holiday dates that are pre-built in Workforce.com:
Identifying public holidays
To identify when a public holiday is applying in Workforce.com, check for the green icon on the schedules and timesheets.
Pro-tip: this is a good way to check that your public holiday settings are configured correctly.
Entering additional public holiday dates
Typically these are any local public holidays such as show days. We recommend adding this into your specific location/s settings (Workforce > Teams > Edit Location > Show Advanced Options > Public Holiday Setup):
If you have locations in more than one public holiday regions
Accounts with multiple locations and multiple public holiday regions can set location specific public holidays in the location settings (Workforce > Teams > Edit Location > Advanced Options):
If a location does not have a specific public holiday region set, the account-wide region will be used.