As above, we process payroll for many staff who have multiple roles at the same employer. Local Government Pension Scheme regulations state that earnings and contributions need to be reported PER ROLE, so we have to manipulate the reports that Sage produces in order to split out earnings and EES / ERS contributions each month for staff who have more than one role with said employer.
Some staff can have up to 4 or 5 different roles with the same employer, so 4 or 5 pension pots with LGPS, which results in lots of unnecessary, manual work each month for our staff, not to mention lots of scope for error.
If there was a way for staff to have multiple pay records within one company in Sage, but for those records to be linked for total gross / taxable pay purposes it would save us a lot of time. I have seen payroll systems that can do such a thing, and I have been told in the past that the Irish version of Sage can do this, but it's never been developed upon for the UK version.