Description

Harmony provides holiday calendars that you can link to a payroll category in order to pay out statutory holidays automatically. 

Prerequisites

• Created a holiday calendar

Solution

1. Navigate to Payroll Setup > Payroll Categories. 
2. Click "+ New Payroll Category" to create a new payroll category. 
3. Select "Statutory Holiday Pay". 
4. Enter all required fields. 
5. In the "Units Refer to" field, it is selected to "Hours" by default. If you pay by days instead, select "Days". 
6. In the "Rule based" field, make the correct selection.
   1. If you select "Company Province", this means that Harmony will take the holiday calendar that is set to the same province as your company. This information can be found in Configuration > Setup > Company Information. 
   2. If you select "Employee Tax Province", this means that Harmony will take the holiday calendar that is set to the same tax province as the employee. This information can be found in Payroll Employees > Employee List. 
   3. If you select "Federal", this means that Harmony will take the holiday calendar that you set to as "Federal". 
7. Identify the correct taxes that are applied on the right side. 
8. Click save to save your new payroll category.

Tip: Remember to assign this payroll category to the applicable employees and enter their correct rates!