As a practitioner, you can create and edit holiday programs for your company. A holiday program is a series of specific holidays for which your company awards holiday pay. You can create multiple holiday programs to be assigned to different groups of employees (pay groups). For example, if your company has employees who work in two different countries, you may need to create separate holiday programs that include the national holidays for each country. Only one holiday program can be assigned per pay group, so each holiday program must contain all of the holidays that apply to the pay groups that use that holiday program. Once a holiday program has been created, you can add and deleted specific holidays within that program or make changes to the definition of each holiday.

Each holiday defined within a holiday program is tied to a holiday qualification rule that specifies what conditions an employee must meet in order to be paid for the holiday. For example, your company may elect not to pay employees for a Monday holiday if the employee does not work his/her regularly scheduled shift on the previous Friday. Your ADP Time & Attendance Representative has created holiday qualification rules that reflect your company's holiday policies. You cannot edit these rules, but you must assign every holiday you create to a holiday qualification rule.

Holiday pay is also affected by holiday pay distribution rules that specify which labor charge categories and earnings codes holiday pay is charged to and how many hours of holiday pay employees receive. Like holiday qualification rules, holiday distribution rules are created and maintained for your company by ADP, but you must assign every holiday you create to a holiday distribution rule.

Note: Although you can create and edit holiday programs and add, delete, or edit specific holiday definitions within holiday programs, you cannot assign holiday programs to pay groups. If you need to change the holiday program assigned to a pay group, contact an ADP Time & Attendance Representative.

For instructions on performing holiday-related tasks, see the following topics: