Public holidays and company holidays

On this page you will learn what public holidays and company holidays are in the context of Die Agenturverwaltung and how to configure them.

This video shows how public holidays, bridge days and company holidays can be configured in the absence calendar and employees' time accounts.

Note: This setting is now located under "Absences" and no longer under "Time Tracking".

Public holidays and company holidays in Die Agenturverwaltung

Public holidays and company holidays are days when the team does not work, i.e. the regularly agreed working time of a permanent employee on a public holiday is zero.

Configuring public holidays and company holidays therefore creates deviations from the regularly agreed working time per weekday of an employee.

This applies only to permanent employees with an assigned time account. Public holidays and company holidays have no impact on the working hours of freelance employees, since no target working hours are configured for them.

Configuration of public holidays and company holidays

The list of configured public holidays and company holidays can be edited by authorized users in Settings under Time Tracking > Public Holidays and Company Holidays.

The configuration page lists all configured public holidays and company holidays.

Nationwide public holidays are already preconfigured; they can now be supplemented with local holidays and, if applicable, bridge days when the agency is closed (company holidays). By clicking the x-button ( ) public holidays and company holidays can be removed.

In the first row a new public holiday can be added by first entering a label and selecting the corresponding date. Clicking the Save button afterwards will add the public holiday.

Half-day public holidays

Half-day public holidays (as in this example "Christmas Eve") can be configured by the "half-day" checkbox. What that means for the individual employee depends on their employment relationship. An employee who works 8 hours on that day only has to work 4 hours, an employee who, for example, occupies only a half position correspondingly only 2 hours. For employees who have that weekday off, this public holiday is mathematically neutral.

Bridge days

Some agencies close the office completely, for example when there is only one day between a public holiday and the weekend. There are two possible agreements:

a) Employees must take vacation on these days

In this case the bridge day must not be listed among the public holidays; instead - ideally at the beginning of the year - a vacation day for the whole team is entered on the corresponding day.

b) These days are free

If no work is done on that day with full compensation, it can simply be treated like a public holiday and added to the list of holi

Import statutory public holidays of my federal state

Die Agenturverwaltung also allows importing statutory public holidays in the right column of the holiday list. To do this simply select the federal state and the year and press "import".

If you have already created some holidays for a particular year manually, they will not be overwritten by the import.

Public holidays for office locations in different countries

Public holidays can also be configured individually for each office location. More about this here:

Office locations with different holidays