Employee can select "pending worker standard" from drop down on direct deposit task

In my Onboarding Journey I have an Application task configured that takes the new employee to the Payment Methods page in Oracle so they can enter a payment method for direct deposit. However, after testing this with a new employee, I realized that the employee is able to select "pending worker standard" from the payroll relationship drop down menu. Is there a way to remove this from being an actionable field? Does it have something to do with pending worker and new hire status being active on the same day? Please let me know if there are any solutions to this. Thanks!