Public Holidays on Time Cards Option

When you're configuring time cards to automatically add public holiday entries, you can set the default value for the payroll time type attribute.

For example, you created payroll elements for different countries using names like US Public Holidays, UK Public Holidays, and Bangalore Public Holidays. For people in the US, you want to set US Public Holidays as the default value for their public holiday entries. Use the Worker Time Processing Profile task in the Setup and Maintenance work area. The task is part of the Workforce Deployment offering, Time and Labor functional area.

You might have profiles for people who work across multiple legislative data groups (LDGs), such as the US and Canada. The time attribute value of the holiday entry gets set automatically only for people in the same LDG as the public holiday element. For example, you select the US Public Holiday payroll element. The element gets used for people in the US LDG. It doesn't get used for people in the Canada LDG. To automatically add holiday entries for everyone, you need to create separate profiles for the two LDGs. The fastest way to do this is to duplicate the existing profile and then update the configurations accordingly, including HCM group assignments.

Tip: You can stop the automatic creation of public holiday entries at any time. Just clear the value from the Payroll Element to Automatically Add Entries field on the time processing profile.

Before Enabled Change Audit Can Work

To automatically add public holiday entries to time cards, you need to complete these tasks in the Setup and Maintenance work area.

• Create a payroll element for public holidays, for each LDG using the Elements task. These elements get used in time card drop-down lists and to set the time attribute value when creating public holiday entries on time cards.
• Run the Generate Data Dictionary Time Attributes process after creating your public holiday payroll elements.
• Set the payroll element as one of the payroll time type attribute values to include in the drop-down list of the multiattribute time card field. If your field definition contains attributes for multiple LDGs, you can add another row for each public holiday payroll element you created for those LDGs. Use the Time Entry Layout Components task.
• Make sure that you defined all observed public holidays for the appropriate geography or organization trees. Use the Manage Calendar Events task. Be sure to set the Category to Public holiday. Also, define full-day public holidays as 12:00a to 12:00a.
• Make sure that your people have one of these types of schedules defined: Work Week, Work Schedule, or Standard Working Hours. For Work Schedule, make sure that the Public holiday event category is added as an exception.