Do you have holidays that span multiple days? Or offices in multiple countries? If so, there are a couple of exciting new updates to Kin’s holiday management you should know about.
A cleaner way to manage holidays
Adding and editing holidays in Kin has a new look and feel. You can now include date ranges for your holidays, and we’ve also included a quick and easy way to add ‘common holidays’ to your list.
Select Common Holidays to quickly get set up for the new year.
Assigning time-off policies to holidays
Now you can set holidays to apply to specific time-off policies. This is a huge improvement for our customers with employees in multiple countries. What you’ll want to do is create your time-off policies on a per-country basis. Then from the Company Holidays section you can select which policies apply to which holidays.
Note, all of your company holidays have been set to include all time-off policies.
Select which time-off policies should be applied to each holiday.
How holidays affect time-off policies
When a time-off policy is assigned to a holiday, only employees who are on that particular policy will be affected. For employees who aren’t on that policy, it’s business as usual and, although the holiday will still show up on their calendar, it has no effect on their time-off balances.
As a side note, there is an existing option in Kin’s time-off policy configurations that offers the option to ‘Include company holidays in time-off requests’. By having this option selected, all holidays will be counted as regular workdays. This option essentially overrides the assignment of policies to individual holidays.
Option to include holidays as workdays from the time-off policy’s Work Schedule.
Need help? Let us know!
The new Company Holidays feature is a lot more bang for the buck. That said, its relationship with Time-off Policies may bring up some questions on how best to configure your account for 2015. We’re here to help anytime, just write us as Support@KinHR.com or click “Need Help?” from the menu in your Kin account.