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(a) In the event the individual resumes employment with the Federal
Government, the entire time during which the employee was receiving
compensation under this chapter shall be credited to the employee for the
purposes of within-grade step increases, retention purposes, and other
rights and benefits based upon length of service.
(b) Under regulations issued by the Office of Personnel Management--
(1) the department or agency which was the last employer shall
immediately and unconditionally accord the employee, if the injury or
disability has been overcome within one year after the date of
commencement of compensation or from the time compensable disability
recurs if the recurrence begins after the injured employee resumes regular
full-time employment with the United States, the right to resume his
former or an equivalent position, as well as all other attendant rights
which the employee would have had, or acquired, in his former position had
he not been injured or disabled, including the rights to tenure,
promotion, and safeguards in reductions-in-force procedures, and
(2) the department or agency which was the last employer shall, if the
injury or disability is overcome within a period of more than one year
after the date of commencement of compensation, make all reasonable
efforts to place, and accord priority to placing, the employee in his
former or equivalent position within such department or agency, or within
any other department or agency.
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