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title: "Public holidays"
description: "Keep the days the whole business is off by law: the civil holidays Beelocity adds for you each year, and the feasts you add when they are announced."
---

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# Public holidays

The **public holidays** are the days the law makes paid holidays for everybody. They belong to your
whole organization rather than to one module: you keep them once, here, and every part of Beelocity
that counts working days reads the same list. They stay here whichever modules your organization
uses, so a business that does not use Human Resources still keeps its feasts.

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## Keep the holiday calendar

Open **Settings** from your avatar menu, then **Public holidays**, under **Calendar**. The list shows
every holiday on your calendar, one row per day, in date order.

Algerian law fixes two kinds of public holiday, and they are kept differently:

- **The five civil holidays** — 1 January, 12 January (*Yennayer*), 1 May, 5 July and 1 November —
  fall on the same dates every year. Beelocity adds them for you — the current year's and the next
  year's when your organization is created, and each following year's as the year before it
  begins, if that year's calendar is still empty. They are written in your organization's
  language, and you can rename them.
- **The religious feasts** — *Aïd el-Fitr* and *Aïd el-Adha* (three days each), *Awal Muharram*,
  *Achoura* and the *Mawlid* — follow the moon, and their dates are announced only a day or two
  ahead. Add each one when it is announced.

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### Add a feast

1. Press **New**.
2. Pick the **Date** and type the **Name** — *Aïd el-Fitr (first day)*, for example.
3. If only the afternoon is off, as on the eve of a feast, switch on **Half day**. That day counts as
   half a day.
4. Press **Save**.

A feast that lasts three days is three holidays, one per day: each day can fall on a day your
business rests anyway, or be a half day of its own. One day holds one holiday — Beelocity refuses
a second holiday on a date already on the calendar.

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### Add the civil holidays of another year

You can add the civil holidays to any year yourself — a year ahead, a past year you are recording
leave for, or a year whose dates you deleted by mistake.

1. On the **Public holidays** list, open the **⋮** menu and choose **Add a year's civil holidays**.
2. Type the **Year** — any year from 2000 to 2100.
3. Press **Add a year's civil holidays**.

Beelocity says how many days it added. A date already on the calendar is left exactly as it is,
even if you renamed it or made it a half day, so a year that already has its five dates gets none.
A leave already recorded across a date it adds is counted again by itself, as it is when you add a
feast by hand.

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### Remove a holiday

Open the holiday and choose **Delete**. A day that is not a holiday has nothing left to record, so
it is removed rather than kept as inactive.

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## What reads the calendar

A holiday you add, change or remove reaches everything below at once. You never type it a second
time.

- **Leave.** A day of leave is never counted on a public holiday, so a month off that crosses
  1 November keeps its day. A leave already recorded across a holiday you add is counted again
  ([How leave days are counted](../hr/holidays-and-leave.html#how-leave-days-are-counted)).
- **Pay.** Somebody who works a public holiday is paid its premium on their payslip, and is owed
  rest of the same length ([Give the rest a worked holiday earns](../hr/holidays-and-leave.html#the-rest-owed)).
- **The roster.** Each holiday is marked on the month's roster and on the attendance sheet
  ([Shifts and rotas](../hr/shifts-and-rotas.html)).
- **The workshop.** A work-center calendar that closes on public holidays is shut on each of
  them, and from noon on a half holiday: the scheduler, the planning run and the maintenance
  deadlines plan around them
  ([Close on public holidays](../manufacturing/work-centers.html#close-on-public-holidays)).

Who may keep the calendar is set in a role, under **Organization**
([Roles and permissions](../access-control/roles-and-permissions.html)).

Source: https://docs.beelocity.com/en/organizations/public-holidays/index.mdx