Is there a problem with having multiple employees with the same SSN in Sage when only one of them is marked active?

I'm asking this question as a correlation to this other post (titled: "Is there a way to change employee numbers in a VI job based on SSN?"). We're running into an issue where Sage no longer deletes employees marked as "Terminated" during year end processing and that's going to cause our seasonal employee import jobs to create duplicate employees of ones that had worked for us previously (since employee numbers are based on year and dept can change from year to year). There will only be one employee record of a particular SSN that's active at a time, but I'm wondering if having duplicate employee records is going to cause other unintended problems. Any insight into the ramifications of this would be great.

Thanks!

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    As long as the employee numbers are unique you should be ok have different employee numbers with matching ssn's in standard reports. Of course if you have custom reports that sort based on the SSN you could have issues.

    Don't know if you realize that the logic for deleting an employee is now based upon whether or not there is data in history files (primary one I think of is in perpetual history which can be purged - with advent of ACA, I think those data files can prevent a deletion as well).