Error while rehiring an employee

Summary:

Hello,

We had a scenario where the employee was rehired after separation but the HR took the action of New Hire instead of Rehire. To resolve this we canceled the existing work relationship and went to My Client Group→ New Person→ Hire an employee and after entering the persons record it was showing the match records and selected on the employee and took action of Rehire but once clicked on next its giving below error:

You cannot add a work relationship for this person because the person is still a pending Employee. (PER-1531925)

Although we cannot find this employee in Pending Employee list.