As different countries or regions have different bank holidays it is necessary to assign defined bank holidays to employees.
Therefore a bank holiday rules are provided.
Bank holiday regulation
A bank holiday rule allocates specific dates to named bank holidays.
A bank holiday rule makes it possible to assign different bank holidays to individual employees. This important when employees are working at different sites with different bank holidays.
Example:In Germany the bank holiday "Allerheiligen" is effective in the federal state Baden-Württemberg. However the bank holiday is not enjoyed in Hamburg.
For each federal state a bank holiday rule is defined to include or exclude "Allerheiligen".
Employees at these two sites will be assigned to separate bank holiday rules.
Predefined bank holiday rules
To minimise administration effort predefined bank holiday rules are used. For example, all federal states in Germany, Austria and Switzerland can be defined.
More bank holiday rules can be added when required.
Bank holiday rules can be applied to all users. Only an administrator who has created an individually defined rule can edit that rule.
Therefore predefined bank holiday rules cannot be changed.
Bank holidays
Because a bank holiday rule contains specific bank holidays, creating and editing bank holidays involves creating and editing corresponding bank holiday rules.
Predefined bank holidays
Predefined bank holidays are entered so that they can be transferred to individual bank holiday rules. For example New Year and Easter are predefined. Tip:
Here is an overview of different bank holidays.
Variable bank holidays
Some bank holidays are not fixed to a certain date. They depend on certain factors. This includes for example the Christian bank holidays Easter, Corpus Christi or Whitsun.
Those bank holidays are variable because they do not occur on the same date every year.
Variable bank holidays are always predefined and cannot be set as personal bank holidays. Personal bank holidays always have the same date every year.
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