Employee Status - Maternity Leave

You're in the right place, Erika.

Let me share insights about changing your employee status in QuickBooks Online (QBO) Payroll.

Once you change the status of your employee to Unpaid leave of absence, you can no longer process her payroll for the sick and vacation time off. I recommend keeping her status Active until her sick and vacation time off is consumed. 

After that run and process her payroll. Once done, you can change her employee status to Unpaid leave of absence.

If you want to learn how to give final pay to an employee who no longer works for you, you can read this article: Create final paychecks for terminated employees.

Never hesitate to return here if you have additional payroll-related concerns. I'll be willing to lend a hand. Have a good one.