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Add Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve, Women’s Carnival Day, and more

You can define the applicable public holidays for each employee.

In addition to statutory public holidays, you can also create company-specific holidays, for example:

  • Christmas Eve
  • New Year’s Eve
  • Carnival-related days (such as Rose Monday or Women’s Carnival Day)
  • Other internal company holidays

These days are not statutory public holidays and are therefore not included in the predefined holiday calendars provided by Timebutler.

Create a Custom Holiday Calendar

  1. Log in to Timebutler as an Admin.
  2. Go to Settings > More… > Holiday Set.
  3. Click Create new holiday set.
  4. Enter a name (for example, “Company Holidays”).

Configure the Holidays

Configure the holiday calendar in two steps.

Step 1: Select Base Public Holidays

Under Associated holidays, select an existing holiday calendar that matches your company’s location (for example, a specific country or federal state).

All statutory public holidays for that region will be preselected automatically.

Step 2: Add Additional Company Holidays

Select any additional days that should apply in your company, for example:

  • Christmas Eve (half day or full day)
  • New Year’s Eve (half day or full day)
  • Carnival-related days (where relevant)

Click the desired entries to activate them.

  1. Click Save.

Assign the Holiday Calendar

After saving, you can immediately assign the new holiday calendar to selected users.

You can also assign it later via:
Assign holiday calendars to employees

Recalculation of Leave

After updating a holiday calendar, Timebutler automatically recalculates:

  • All leave requests
  • All vacation balances

The new holidays are taken into account immediately.

Set as Default for New Users

If the holiday calendar should apply to future user accounts as well, configure it in the:

Default settings for new users