Begin automatically calculates special pay for hours worked on national holidays and can shorten the working day before holidays. This article explains how these settings work.
Holiday hour multipliers
Go to Settings → Overtime calculation to configure holiday multipliers:
National holiday hours multiplier — applied to all hours worked on a national holiday (default: 1.0, meaning double pay — base + 100% extra)
Holiday night multiplier — applied to night hours worked on a holiday (default: 1.0)
Holiday evening multiplier — applied to evening hours worked on a holiday (default: 0)
How holiday multipliers combine
When an employee works during a holiday night, both the holiday and night multipliers can apply. The report shows these in separate columns:
Holiday hours — general holiday multiplier
Holiday night hours — additional multiplier for night hours on holidays
Holiday evening hours — additional multiplier for evening hours on holidays
Pre-holiday shortened days
The setting "Previous working day before a national holiday shortened by" lets you configure automatic shortening. For example, setting it to 3 hours means that the working day before every national holiday is 3 hours shorter than normal.
The options range from 0 to 12 hours. This affects the norm hours calculation for that day.
Shifts spanning midnight on holidays
The setting "Working time calculation method when shift crosses month boundary" also applies to holiday boundaries. You can choose to:
Assign all hours to the start date's month
Assign all hours to the end date's month
Split hours between months based on midnight
Managing national holidays
National holidays are configured separately and determine which dates receive the holiday multiplier. Check with your admin that the correct holidays are set for your country.