Set weekly offs
Create weekly-off templates such as every Sunday plus the 2nd and 4th Saturday, decide whether they are paid, and assign them.
On this page
A weekly-off template lists which days are off each week.
Create a template
- Go to Attendance → Weekly offs.
- Under New weekly-off template, enter a Name, for example "Sunday and 2nd, 4th Saturday".
- In Days and weeks off, tick the days. Use Every week for a day that is off every week, or tick weeks 1 to 5 for days off only in some weeks of the month.
- Keep Weekly offs are paid on if staff are paid for their weekly offs.
- Select Save.
Assign a template
- Under Assign a template, choose who it Applies to: the whole business, a branch, a department, a work site or one staff member.
- Choose the Template and the date it applies Starting.
- Select Assign.
The most specific assignment wins.
Paid or unpaid
Whether weekly offs are paid changes the salary of monthly staff under some payable-days methods. For daily-paid staff, the payroll setting Pay daily staff for weekly offs decides it. See Payable days methods.
Related articles
Plan the weekly roster
Set each staff member's shift or weekly off for each day of the week, leave cells on the default pattern, and copy a week to the next one.
Add holiday lists
Make a holiday list for each year, add national, state and festival holidays, copy it to the next year, and assign it to the business or a branch.
Payable days methods
How calendar days, 30 or 26 days a month, a fixed number of days and working days only change a monthly salary when a staff member has loss of pay.
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