Vacation Tracking System (Summary)

The VTS (Vacation Tracking System) provides individual employees with the capability to manage their vacation time, sick leave, and personal time off, without having to be an expert in company policy or the local facility's leave policies.

It will provide the following key features:

• Implements a flexible rule-based system for validating and verifying leave time requirements
• Enables manager approval (optional)
• Provides access to requests for the previous calendar year, and allows requests to be made up to a year and a half in the future
• Uses email notification to request manager approval
• Notifies employees of request status changes through Atom (RSS) feed, and optionally email
• Uses existing hardware and middleware
• Implemented as an extension to the existing intranet system, and uses the existing intranet login for all authentication
• Keeps activity logs for all transactions
• Enables the HR and system administrators to override all actions restricted by rules, with logging of any overrides
• Enables managers to directly award personal leave time, with system-set limits
• Provides web interface for other internal systems to query any given employee's vacation request summary
• Interfaces with the HR department's legacy systems to retrieve employee information and changes
• Uses REST architecture for all interface and information