UK public holiday calendar 2025 - two days missing

From what I can see there was no response from Personio directly on this?  Those two Bank Holidays have not been added, so do we need to add them manually for all staff in England?

Dear all here
how did you manage the issue that the bank holiday on April 21 is missing. tnx

Nadia

Hi - when we went through the original implementation process with Personio, they recommended that we create and use a copy of the relevant public holiday, and add our own relevant bank holidays to that ‘Custom’ version.

Not sure why the system version of UK public holidays is not kept updated correctly - but it might be because England and Wales have different Bank Holidays to Scotland and Northern Ireland...

I am escalating this issue. It will be not fun to catch some errors in the system every year. :)

The system is clever enough to put Good Friday and Easter Monday in the right place each year, once you have added them - here’s this year and next as examples. They are the only two BHs that move each year, but the system works it out around Easter Sunday.
 

tnx ​@HRJoy for a quick reaction
would it make sense to implement the change in the overall UK calendar instead of asking each customer-company to create own bank holiday country calendars? maybe someone in Personio updates the national holidays one the year starts.

Yes - totally agree! I’m not sure why this doesn’t happen. This process has also caused me to spot that the late May Bank Holiday wasn’t in my 2026 calendar (because sometimes it falls on the 4th Monday and sometimes on the 5th Monday of May, and the options available don’t allow for that to be automated). So I agree that it doesn’t really work well currently to ask each company to keep this updated for themselves.

But again, just to be picky (in case anyone at Personio is reading), there isn’t a single ‘UK’ set of Bank Holidays. So they would need an ‘England & Wales’ version, a ‘Scotland’ version, and a ‘Northern Ireland’ version :)

There are about 17 German public holiday calendars in the System selection, so it would seem possible for Personio to make this work for UK customers too.

Thank you for escalating this issue to Personio - there are now pre-set Public Holiday calendars for England/Wales, and Scotland (amongst other new worldwide additions) 😀
 

We have just spotted an issue with the new public holiday calendars… 

We changed over to the new Personio United Kingdom (England/Wales) calendar - but it was not populated with any of the public holiday dates for any of the years before 2025, which has caused havoc with our employees’ carried over holiday allowances as there are no longer public holidays in our company calendar! So anyone who booked annual leave across what was a public holiday has now had that day deducted rom their total.

Swapping back to our previous, custom, public holiday calendar did not fix this issue, the public holidays did not populate back in to the years pre-2025.

If anyone from Personio happens to see this - please help! We have lots of unhappy colleagues right now.

Did you implement the carry over policy? If not - it would not matter… Right?

We did implement the carryover policy, so it very much matters unfortunately!

we have implemented the carry over from 2025 only. in our case it is ok

Just to follow up on this - we have changed back to our ‘custom’ public holiday calendar, which has fixed the issue with pre-2025 public holiday dates not being in the calendar. Its a shame that the new UK ‘system’ calendars weren’t populated back for a few years to fix this.