Knowledge Check

An employee advises his supervisor that he is resigning his position with the agency to go on active duty in the Uniformed Services. He does so, and three years later is medically discharged due to an injury sustained in service. A month after his terminal discharge from service, the employee returns to the agency and requests to be reinstated. The agency should:
- Require him to reapply for a position with the agency through USA Jobs.
- Advise him that since he resigned his position, and since the former position is filled, the agency is no longer obligated to reinstate him.
- Promptly reinstate him in the same position of status, seniority, and rate of pay he otherwise would have attained had he remained continuously employed.