If your Public Holiday or replacement Public Holiday falls on a weekday, and all the employees are off for this day. You can add a Public Holiday manually in your calendar as follows: any leave application on this day will be excluded. If you intend to grant your employees an extra day off or a public holiday in lieu, and they can apply the leave as and when, then please refer to credit leave.
Go to the Core module.
Click Setup, and select Calendar Setup.
Select the Calendar ID e.g., 5 Days Week Cal.
Click the day the public holidays fall, eg, 1st Sept.
Right click, select Holiday.
Type the Holiday ID and the description, e.g., Polling Day.
Set the date, click Save and Yes.
Click Setup and select Initialise New Year Setup.
Click Step 1: Initialise Calendar.
Click All to initialise all calendars and Confirm.