Deleting EE's at year end

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Happy New Year all.  We finally upgraded to Sage 100 2017 and in archiving our payroll year only the Database Admin tool would only remove 1 out of 12 selected EE's during the archive process.  After verifying the archive, etc. I tried to manually delete the EE, and received a message indicating "Unable to Delete" and was able to view a "Delete Record Conflict List".  It appears to be related to the individual EE's payroll and their hours associated for job cost purposes.  Will I be able to delete the EE's after I close our fiscal year at end of February?  If not....when?