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Turnkey HR Solution

Vacation
Manager

Compliance, Clarity, and Control
for Your People Operations

Federico Monge Consulting  |  AI - Strategy - Finance
The Problem

Vacation chaos costs
more than you think.

📧 Vacation requests arrive by WhatsApp, email, and sticky notes — then get lost before anyone acts on them.
📊 HR doesn't know the real balance until it's an audit — and by then it's too late to fix it cleanly.
⚖️ Labor law violations from incorrect accrual calculations expose companies to fines and retroactive liabilities.
📌 Incorrect vacation management is one of the top 3 causes of labor disputes in LATAM. Most are entirely preventable.
Compliance Risk

Get it wrong.
Pay for it twice.

FIFO Violations
If you don't track which vacation period is consumed first, you violate labor law. Most spreadsheet systems don't do this correctly.
Cash-Out Miscalculations
Paying vacation days at the wrong daily rate creates retroactive liabilities. Payroll and HR often use different numbers.
Audit Exposure
No audit trail means no defense in a labor dispute. A record of who approved what — and when — is your first line of protection.
"The cost of a single labor dispute exceeds the cost of a proper system — many times over."
The Framework

One system. Every scenario.

🏖️
Vacation Request
Submit, approve, track dates and day count
💰
Cash-Out
Request payment for unused accrued days
🔙
Early Return
Log return before end, calculate compensation
📊
Balance Dashboard
Real-time accrued, used, pending, available
⚙️
Admin Control
FIFO rules, seniority tables, approval chains
Every scenario a mid-market company faces — handled from a single interface, with full audit trail.
Accrual Engine

FIFO: First In, First Out.

The right way to track vacation.

2023
USED FIRST → fully consumed
15 days used ✓
→
Period closed
2024
USED SECOND → partially consumed
8 days used
7 available
→
Active period
2025
UPCOMING → accruing
15 days accrued — not yet available for request
→
Next period
"Most companies track a total balance. The law requires tracking by period. We do it right."
Approval Workflow

Three levels. Zero friction.

No portal. No login. Approvers act directly from their email.

👤
Manager
Reviews dates, checks team calendar, confirms no coverage conflict
📋
HR
Validates accrued balance, confirms FIFO period, checks policy compliance
💼
Finance
Signs off on cash-out and early return monetary compensation
✅ Approve or reject directly from email — no portal login required
🔍 Full audit trail: who approved, when, and any notes left on the request
Employee Experience

Employees submit once.

HR follows up never.

📅 Request form with date picker and auto-calculated business day count
📊 Real-time balance display — accrued, used, pending, available by period
🔄 Status tracking — pending, in review, approved, rejected with timestamps
💰 Cash-out request in 3 clicks — amount auto-calculated from daily rate
🔙 Early return notification with automatic compensation trigger — unused days returned to balance
HR Operations

Your HR team sees everything.

📥
Pending Approvals
Queue of requests waiting for action
Sorted by urgency and date submitted
One-click approve or reject with notes
Auto-escalation for overdue approvals
📊
Balance Summary
All employees, all periods, all statuses
Filter by department or team
Flag employees with expiring days
Export to payroll format
⚠️
Compliance Report
Expired days not yet taken
Unresolved early returns
Policy exceptions requiring action
Labor audit-ready export
One screen. Zero spreadsheet maintenance.
The Cost of Inaction

The math is simple.

What doing nothing actually costs your organization.

$15K–50K
Labor dispute settlement — average range in LATAM mid-market companies for a single unresolved vacation claim
8–12 hrs
HR time spent on manual balance tracking every month, per 100 employees — time that could be automated
2–5%
Payroll errors from incorrect cash-out calculations, as a share of total vacation liability on the balance sheet
A proper system pays for itself in the first month. Every month after that is pure risk reduction.
Deployment

Live in 24 hours.

Runs on your Google Workspace. No accounts to create. No licensing fees.

1
Configure seniority table and accrual rules
Set years-of-service brackets and corresponding vacation days per labor law or company policy — takes about 30 minutes
2
Set up approval chains per department
Assign Manager, HR, and Finance approvers — can vary by business unit or be global — takes about 15 minutes
3
Import current employee balances from payroll
Load opening balances from your existing payroll or HR system — takes about 30 minutes with a standard CSV
4
Employees start submitting requests immediately
No training required. The interface is intuitive and works on any device with a browser.
Why Us

Built by someone who ran the teams.

01
Country Manager — managed 820 employees in Colombia and 250 in Peru. I know what vacation chaos looks like at scale.
02
Deep LATAM labor law experience across Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, and Brazil — the nuances that generic software misses.
03
Built on AI-first tooling, not legacy HR software. The system evolves with your needs — not on a vendor's release schedule.
04
Deployed and running in real organizations. This is a practitioner's tool, not a consultant's presentation.
Ready to Start

Let's eliminate your
vacation chaos.

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Federico Monge Consulting
AI — Strategy — Finance