HR users can define new days off that will not count to used days when creating new Vacation Document. Every new created holiday can be defined as one time only, or recurring (e.g. New Year's Eve that reoccur every year at the same date). In case of workdays - HR creates schemes of non working days of week, that can be assigned to different users.
Holidays management
Whilst While being logged as a member of HR group (Jira 's HR group userpicked at initialization), from Navigation Bar Menu go to Management (1) ➜ Holiday Schemes (2). To make changes, click on click "Edit" hyperlink (3)
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After any changes made, you need to click Update workdays button to apply them in your system. By default, every any day of week is set as workday (except Saturday and Sunday) is set as a working day.
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