There are much better ways to keep track of such loans to employees than to mix them all together in a single Loans account, where there is no separation between loans to various employees.
One is to run the loans through the Employee clearing account and account for them on payslips by setting up a dedicated payslip deduction item for loan repayment.
Another is to create a custom control account for special accounts and have each loan be a special account.
In either case, you will have a place to look to see what the individual employee owes.
Even without those approaches, you can continue doing what you have been doing by searching the Receipts & Payments tab for the employee’s name. In this example, I loaned Robert the Employee 1000 for a lorry, and he has repaid 100:
