Public holidays are not added by default in the Access Education People system and do not generate automatically for future years. Instead, they will need to be added manually in the Setup menu.
Once a public holiday is set up it will be added for every employee in the system and will be visible in their calendar. You do not need to book leave for public holidays as this is already registered as absence.
When submitting leave for a period of time that includes public holidays you can use the "Use Working Pattern" option and this will automatically exclude the public holidays when calculating the number of working days for the leave.
Add a public holiday
To add a new public holiday:
Click Setup, then Settings.
Click Module Settings and select General.
Click Public Holiday and then Add Public Holiday.
Enter the name of the holiday in the Description field and select the date.
Click Save.
Webinar
We also have a webinar on adding public holidays that offers further guidance on this process.