Position to Which Restored

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Employees with service-incurred or service-aggravated disabilities must be restored based on the following guideline:

  • If the employee is not qualified for reemployment in the escalator position because of a service-incurred or –aggravated disability after reasonable efforts by the employer to accommodate the disability and to help the employee to become qualified, the employee must be reemployed in:
    • A position that is equivalent in seniority, status, and pay to the escalator position, (such as a tele-work accommodation or a position of equivalent rank but without the same physical requirements) or
    • A position that is the nearest approximation to the equivalent position, in terms of seniority, status, and pay, consistent with the circumstances of the employee's case

The agency is not required to reemploy a disabled employee if, after making due efforts to accommodate the disability, such reemployment would impose an undue hardship on the agency. See RESTORATION TO DUTY FROM UNIFORMED SERVICE OR COMPENSABLE INJURY


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