Add Company Holidays
How do I add company holidays?
Purpose: To teach you how to customize your company holiday listing.
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Holidays
Navigate to Holidays in Settings.
If you have not added any holidays yet, you will see the option to Add Standard Holidays.
Select the applicable country and click Continue. Currently, the available standard holidays include holidays of the United States and Canada.
If you need to make edits to a holiday, click on the holiday name.
If a holiday falls on a weekend, it will have a yellow highlight. If necessary, you can click on the holiday name to change the observance date.
If you would like to add any additional holidays beyond the standard ones, click + Add Holiday to add a custom holiday.
Enter the following details:
- Holiday Name
- Date: Enter the date. Click More than one day? if the holiday spans more than one day.
- This Holiday is for: If necessary, use the standard filters to filter the holiday. Once filtered, the holiday will only show in the Who's Out widget and calendar for the employees included in the filter.
- Add holiday hours or set a special pay rate multiplier for this holiday?: See below for more details on your options here.
- Save: Click to save your changes.
Holiday hours or pay rates
Did you know holiday hours and pay rates automatically transfer into BambooHR Payroll? It's as easy as 1, 2, 3! Click here to learn more about our Payroll add-on!
If you check Add holiday hours or set a special pay rate multiplier for this holiday?, you will see the option to designate how many hours different employees (based on Employment Status) receive for that holiday. If a holiday is for All Employees and you don't cover everyone in your selection (for example, I may have left Interns out in the image above), everyone else will default to 0 hours.
If you select the second option, Employees receive the following pay rate for any hours worked on this holiday, you can enter a rate that will apply to all hourly employees.
Please note that if you have a time off policy based on hours worked and your employees work on a holiday and receive a special rate, they will receive time off accruals for every hour worked on the holiday.
Common holidays
As you enter a more common holiday, you may see a drop-down list with available holidays in our database. Select the applicable holiday to allow BambooHR to autofill the details.
If you have set holidays for a previous year, the option to copy the full holiday list from year to year will be available.
- Standard holidays will update with the new year's correct date and day of the week as applicable. Please note however, if you have updated the observance date for a standard holiday, that updated date will carry over to the new year. Click on the holiday name to make any necessary edits.
- Custom holidays will retain their exact dates in the new year. Click on the holiday name to make edits. Or, hover over the holiday and click on the trash can icon to delete it.
The filters selected for each holiday will remain from year to year when copied over.
For more information on how holiday hours will sync with payroll, click here!
As a payroll professional, you’ll want to be aware of the following Federal Holidays. Depending on the timing of the federal holiday, the Federal Reserve, banks, and/or BambooHR Payroll can be closed, potentially affecting your payroll due dates. This will generally make your payroll run date earlier than normal due to ACH requirements (depending on your company settings).
BambooHR Payroll will send out reminders as a courtesy, however, we recommend marking these on your calendar and being aware of them to ensure your payrolls are not affected negatively:
- New Year’s Day
- Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Washington’s Birthday
- Memorial Day
- Juneteenth National Independence Day
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Columbus Day
- Veterans Day
- Thanksgiving Day
- Christmas Day
Happy Processing!