HREMP element Group

We have had our back office users on LS9 security for a while and we are now implememting EMS security.  We also have multiple accounts, one for back office and one for EMS that we planning to combine (eliminate the back office login).  We use the HREMP Element group to enforce record level security in the HR modules.  We have discovered that for a certain subset of HR employees that they cannot access their own information in EMS once the EMS and back office roles are applied to a single login because the HREMP rule is blocking access.  The Element Group rule is evaluated first and other rules are not evaluated if the Element Group rules come back ACCESS_DENIED (KB 5430934).  Has anyone else been in this situation and is there a way around this without scrapping the HREMP rule?