Will the status of an employee as unpaid leave of absence still have the employee show up on the paycheck list.

I'm glad you made it here, tokyomomo64.

Let me share some insights about changing an employee status in QuickBooks Online. When you change the status of an employee to an Unpaid leave of absence, the name will not appear on the Paycheck list. 

You can check out this article to learn more information about terminating or changing employee status on the payroll in QBO.

I also encourage you to go over into this article about several payroll reports to get a closer look at your finances: Run payroll reports

Please let me know if you need anything else. Have a good one!