Understanding Holiday Calendars for Australia

You can create holiday calendars for Australia using the Foundation Calendar feature, which is part of the Address Book system. Using Foundation Calendar, you can manage work, holiday, and vacation schedules for employees. You can also create calendars to record work schedules for a company, business unit, state or province, union or location.

In addition to the standard setup required for the calendar feature to function, you must complete some additional setup to make the holiday calendars for Australia function. First, you must validate that UDC table (06/SC) includes all of the values for the Australian states and provinces. Verify the processing options for the State/Province Identifier UDC field is set to 1 in the Calendar Maintenance program (P01311). Next, you must verify that the employee tax information is set up with the correct State/Province code. Additionally, you must enter the state/province code in the Identifier field on the Calendar form. Then, you must validate that the calendars that are set up for individual employees include the correct state/province code for the employee. You enter this code in the Identifier field on the Calendar form.

After validating that your UDC and employee calendar data is correct, you then set up holiday calendars for Australia. When you create these calendars, you enter a state/province code for the calendar. You then add the holidays to the calendar as activities. After the calendar and holiday activities are created, all of the activities for the holiday calendar are automatically added to the calendars of the employees who have the same state/province code as the associated calendar.

For example, if an employee has state/province code VIC (Victoria) in the Identifier field on the Calendar form, they would get all of the activities associated with the holiday calendar that are created with the state/province code VIC added to their personal calendar.