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Currently in Australia employers are not legally required to pay an employee while on maternity leave. As far as e-PayDay® is concerned the options open to you are as follows
1. Put a termination date in the employee's details, leaving her on the terminated list and not seen in the payrun list screen. This ensures that she will not be accidently paid. See Manual Termination. Even though, in real life, the employee's employment hasn't actually been terminated, this option at least keeps them safe from being accidently paid. They can just as easily re-instated when they return to work. See Manual Re-Instatement.
2. Leave the employee as is (active) and just not pay her each pay period.
In either case, it is recommended that you record the start date of her maternity leave in the comments section of her employee details. See Employment TAB
Paying out any Annual Leave
If an employee has an annual leave balance up their sleeve, many employers elect to pay that out as part of the employee's last pay before starting the maternity leave. Annual leave is paid out via a termination payrun. See Termination Payrun
After that payrun is finalised, the employee will be on the terminated list. For information on how to re-instate the employee see Manual Re-Instatement.