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# Holidays and days off

> National holidays, company-specific days off and exclusions

Holidays determine which days are paid with the holiday surcharge and on which days an absence is not counted. You can view and manage them in **Human Resources → Holidays and days off**, by year.

## Holiday sources

| Source | Description |
| - | - |
| **Country** | National holidays loaded by FileXpress for the company's country (El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia). They cannot be edited. |
| **Country · regional** | Reference local days off (for example, the August festivities of San Salvador). **They are not applied automatically**: if your company grants them, create them as a company day off. |
| **Company** | Days off the company adds itself. |

Filter the table by **All**, **Country** or **Company**. **Half-day** days off show the time from which they apply (for example, December 24 and 31 in Guatemala from 12:00).

## Add a company day off

**1. Go to Human Resources → Holidays and days off → Add day off**

**2. Enter the date and name**

**3. Branch (optional)**

Limits the day off to a branch's employees. Without a branch, it applies to the whole company.

**4. Half day (optional)**

Indicates the time from which it is a day off. Hours worked after that time are paid as holiday.

**5. Paid**

On by default. Clear it if the day off is unpaid (it is shown as *Unpaid*).

## Exclude a national holiday

If the company works a national holiday as usual (by agreement or because it does not apply to its activity), use **Exclude** on that row. The holiday is shown as **Excluded** and that day is treated as a normal day. To undo it, delete the exclusion and the holiday applies again.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Adding, editing, excluding or deleting a holiday automatically recalculates attendance for that date. Days included in a processed or paid payroll do not change.

## Effect on attendance

* **Not working**: the day appears with the **Holiday** status and does not count as an absence.
* **Working**: **Worked on holiday** status; the hours go to the holiday categories with their surcharge (see [Labor rules](https://docs.filexpress.app/en/docs/rrhh/reglas-laborales.md#how-hours-are-classified)).
* A shift that crosses midnight into a holiday pays as holiday only the hours after 00:00.

> [!WARNING]
>
> Each year, compare the loaded calendar with your country's official calendar (for example, moved holidays or decreed days off) and adjust it with company days off or exclusions.

## See also

* [API: Holidays](https://docs.filexpress.app/en/docs/api/rrhh/feriados.md)


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