====== How to create Non-Working Day Calendar and add Public Holidays ======


  * 1. Go to menu **Payroll** and select **Settings** or Go to menu **HR** and select **Settings**. In the screenshots below, the **Payroll menu** has been selected.
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  * 2. Click **Non-Working Days**.
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  * 3. In the calendar column, insert the **calendar name** (e.g. Yearly Calendar) 
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  * 4. Select **Default**.The default flag sets this yearly calendar as the automatic default calendar for Payroll and HR settings.
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  * 5. Click **Save.**
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  * 6. Click the **Yearly Calendar.**
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  *  7a. Click the **Days tab**.
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  *  7b. In the **Day** column, choose or insert the **date** of the Public holiday/non working day.

  *  7c. In the **Description** column insert the name of the Public holiday/non working day.


  *  7d. In the **Non-Working Day Type column**, choose the non working day type. For example choose **Public holiday** for New Year celebration, choose **Disaster** for Cyclones.

  *  7e. In the **Gender column**, choose **both.**
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  * 8. Click **save**
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  * **The public holiday is now added to the calendar.**

  *  The below illustration shows the public holiday/non working day for **year 2026**
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