The Maternity Protection infotype (0080) is an enhancement of the Absences infotype (2001). The Maternity Protection infotype (0080) enables you to record all absences related to maternity protection and parental leave. You can only use this infotype for female employees.

Absences entered in Maternity Protection are also stored automatically in the Absences infotype.

You can make settings for the Maternity Protection infotype in Customizing. The standard R/3 System proposes certain absence types and calculates the related periods when you enter the expected and actual date of delivery and the type of birth. You can overwrite these default values or add other absence types, as required.

A special feature of this infotype relates to the validity period of records. The system automatically overwrites the "from" and "to" dates according to the specified periods.