# Holidays

The fields on a holiday, the year tabs that keep calendars apart, and what Optional and Applies To actually change.

Holidays are added here and displayed on the holiday calendar, which is read-only. This page is the field-by-field reference; the procedure for adding one, including importing a country's public holidays in a single pass, is in Add a Holiday.

![The Holidays screen, headed Holidays above the line Manage company holidays, with an outlined Import national holidays button and a blue Holiday button at the right. Year tabs read 2026 and 2027 beside the text 11 holidays. Three holiday cards follow, each with a three-dot menu: New Year's Day with a red National badge, dated Jan 1 and listing every work location; 2 January (Scotland) with a red National badge, dated Jan 2, Fri, listing Glasgow Depot alone; and Good Friday, National, again listing every location.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/worklink/settings/holidays-list.png)

*Each card names the locations it closes, so a scoped holiday is obvious at a glance.*

## Fields on a holiday

*The holiday form in Worklink Settings*

## The year tabs are separate calendars

Holidays are held per year and the tabs switch between them. Nothing carries over: importing 2026 does nothing for 2027, and a new year needs its own import or its own entries.

## What Optional really means

An optional holiday is a day people may take, not a day the office closes. Worklink shows it on the calendar, badges it **Optional**, and then stays out of the way: it does not stop anybody checking in, and it does not turn the day into a non-working one.

- **National** (red badge): A statutory public holiday, usually arriving through the import rather than typed in.
- **Gazetted** (plain badge): Everything else, including company shutdowns and local days.
- **Optional** (amber badge): A restricted holiday. Offered, never enforced.

> **Note:**
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> **Some dates move, and Worklink says so**
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> A day set by moon sighting carries its own badge and a warning that the official day off is often shifted. Check the announcement for the year rather than trusting the imported date.

> **Warning:**
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> **A holiday with the wrong Applies To closes the wrong sites**
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> It is the commonest mistake on this screen, and the symptom is a holiday nobody can find rather than an error message. Every card lists the locations it covers, so the calendar is auditable without opening each entry.