QuickBooks Online (QBO) is always compliant with the payroll and tax policy coming from your state and supports leave accrual for employees through its payroll features. At the moment, we haven't received any proposition for sick leave. But, I have some information about this so you'll know how this works in QuickBooks, djak.
You can set up leave policies, including accrual rules, and tracking hours accrued. However, there is no specific setting available to automatically accrue sick leave for employees under 18 who work 30 hours per week. This setup may require manual adjustments or additional customization to align with your specific requirements.
To set up your time off pay policies for your employees, follow the steps outlined below:
- Go to the Payroll menu and select Employees tab.
- Choose your employees.
- From Time off, select Start or Edit.
- Select Add new [time off pay] policy from the dropdown menu to add a policy for:
- Vacation Pay
- Paid time off
- Sick Pay
- Unpaid time off

- Fill out the necessary on-screen fields to create your policy, then Save.
- Once completed, click Save.
- The policy you created will be available to all of your employees. Use this policy for your other employees or create a new one for them.
To give you more information on how you can change our time off pay policy settings and balance, check out this article: Set Up and Track Time off in Payroll.
On top of that, learn how to generate reports for your employees information, wages, taxes, and deduction using the Payroll Summary report. I've got this for you: Run Payroll Reports.
If you have any other concerns or questions about sick leave accrual or anything about payroll, we're always right here to assist you further.