brotherton-erpnext/erpnext/docs/user/manual/en/human-resources/holiday-list.md

Holiday List is a list which contains the dates of holidays along with the
occasion of that holiday. The list is generally valid for one calendar year.  

Most organisations have a standard Holiday-List for their employees. Some even
have different holiday lists for laborers and a different one for management
staff.

  

To set up a holiday list in the system, Go to Human Resources Module and Click
on Holiday List.

  

> Human Resources >Holiday List > New Holiday List  

  
#### Figure 1: Holiday List

![]({{docs_base_url}}/assets/old_images/erpnext/holiday-list-1.png)  

  

__Step 1:__ Give a name to the Holiday list

__Step 2:__ Mention the Fiscal Year  

__Step 3:__ State the Weekly  off.  

__Step 4:__ Click on the button 'Get Weekly Off Dates'  

This step will fill the box below with yearly off dates with day as the
description.

__Step 5:__ Click on Add new row to add more dates  

Mention the holiday reason in the description and select the date from the
'Date' field.

  
#### Figure 2: Adding new holidays to the list

![]({{docs_base_url}}/assets/old_images/erpnext/holiday-list-2.png)  

  

> Note 1: If you have selected a holiday list in the Employment Details form,
the system will give priority to the form mentioned here. It will fetch the
list mentioned in the form rather than the one which you may have specified as
Default; However, if there is no list in the employment details form, the
default list will be fetched.


> Note 2: You can form as many holiday lists as you wish. For example, if you
have a mill, you can have one list for mill workers and another list for
office staff. You can manage between lists by attaching their respective
holiday list to their respective employment detail form.

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