Public holidays

Public holidays are non-working days that never come off anyone's balance. Ferio holds them per country profile per year, plus a tenant-wide set for company closures that apply to everyone. Managing them needs the manage holidays permission, under Settings, Holidays.

Import a country's holidays

Pick a country profile and a year, then import that country's official holidays in one click. Ferio pulls them from the Nager.Date public-holiday source and writes them onto the profile. Run it once per year you want covered. Re-importing is safe: existing dates are skipped, not duplicated.

Refresh against the template

For a chosen year, Refresh shows a preview of the difference between the country template and what the profile already has: which dates it would add, and which non-recurring dates it would remove. Review the diff, then apply it. Recurring entries you have added by hand are left alone.

Add closures by hand

Add any date the automatic list misses: a company shutdown, a local day off, a one-off closure. Choose whether the row is tenant-wide (everyone) or scoped to one country profile. Two holidays cannot share the same date on the same scope. Manual rows sit alongside imported ones and behave the same on the calendar.

How holidays behave

Holidays show on the calendar for everyone the profile covers and are skipped when Ferio counts the working days in a request, so they are never deducted as leave. If a connected Google Calendar has holiday sync on, new and removed holidays propagate to it automatically. Where a country reschedules a weekend into a working day, record that separately: see Substitute workdays.

A public holiday always beats a substitute workday: if a holiday lands on a Saturday you marked as working, that day stays non-working.