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title: "Setting up non-working days sets"
slug: "how-do-i-set-up-update-delete-non-working-days-sets"
description: "Manage Non-Working Days effectively by creating exclusion sets for holidays and closures, ensuring accurate holiday and sickness recording for employees."
updated: 2026-07-29T11:52:12Z
published: 2026-07-29T11:52:12Z
canonical: "help.cintra.co.uk/how-do-i-set-up-update-delete-non-working-days-sets"
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# Setting up non-working days sets

**Non-Working Days (Excluded Days)** are used to record dated events within the system such as bank holidays and closure days, which the system can use in order to ensure the correct recording of **Holiday** and **Sickness**. You can create the exclusion sets and then define their dates. The dates are grouped together into "sets" which can then be added to the employee's calendar. You can create sets for bank holidays, factory shut downs etc. This is so that when an employee books a holiday, for instance, they won't book a bank holiday off as part of their holiday entitlement.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** The system already has exclusion sets for England & Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Factory Shutdown and you are only required to update the dates/days from when you start to use them. For adding, updating, or removing individual dates within a set, see Managing exclusion dates in a non-working days set.

## To create the exclusion set

1. Navigate to the **Standard Exclusion Set** form.
  - Go to **Cintra iQ**: Employer Settings > Non-Working Days > Navigator. The **Excluded Dates** appear in the **Navigator**.
2. Right-click: **New** in the **Navigator**. The **New Record for the Standard Exclusion Set** form appears.
3. Enter the **Name** of the non-working day set.
4. Enter a **Description**.
5. Choose an **Access Level**, if necessary.
6. Select the **Exclude from Holiday Entitlement** option, if necessary.
7. Click the **Finish** button. The new set record appears in the **Navigator**.

## To delete an exclusion set

1. Go to **Cintra iQ**: Employer Settings > Non-Working Days > Navigator and selecting the desired set.
2. Right-click: **Delete**. The set is removed from the **Navigator**.