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# Acting on time off

> Arrange cover for a holiday with an override, or flag upcoming overlaps with a vacation policy

Once you've set up some [public holiday](/on-call/public-holidays), [calendar feed](/on-call/calendar-feeds), or [HRIS](/on-call/direct-hris-integrations) subscriptions, we'll automatically surface relevant holidays alongside your On-call schedule shifts. From there, you can arrange cover yourself, or set up a policy to automatically flag any upcoming overlaps.

## Create an override

To arrange cover for a holiday, hover over it in the timeline and click **Create override**.

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## Detect on-call and vacation overlaps with a policy

Nobody wants to get paged on the beach. A vacation policy checks upcoming vacations against your On-call schedules and notifies you of any overlaps, so they're spotted well before someone's already off.

Here's how it works:

* **We spot overlaps automatically.** We check upcoming vacations against who's scheduled to be on-call and surface any conflicts.
* **We look 60 days ahead.** We scan for overlaps in the next 60 days, so there's time to arrange cover.
* **We notify the person on vacation.** When we spot an overlap, we let them know so they can sort cover before they're off.

Vacation overlaps are configured as a policy. To turn this on, see [Policies](/admin/policies).
