Bank Holidays

In IRIS Cascade, bank holidays don't necessarily have to be bank holidays. You can use this function to add any days that your employees will have off without affecting their holiday balance, such as a Christmas shut down.

You can:

• Add new bank holiday locations
  
• Delete bank holiday locations
• Add holidays to bank holiday locations
• Globally reassign bank holiday profiles to groups of employees.

Bank Holidays are not automatically added each year in IRIS Cascade, you must add them manually.

Bank holidays and sickness records

IRIS Cascade doesn't block sickness on bank holidays. Bank holidays count as working days for sickness records.

Bank holidays are considered a nationwide holiday but are not specific to the employee. As per HMRC legislation, they should be counted as a sick day if they fall within the employees normal working pattern.

In situations where HMRC legislation does not apply, you can prevent bank holidays being counted towards the sickness record. Manually adjust the absence record, selecting Time of Day option N/A and duration for the day as 0.00.

The total duration for the period of absence must still be greater than zero.