Create Infopath forms for Renewals, Inactivation and ReHire

Hi All,
I need suggestions on the approach i should follow for the following requirement: I'm helping HR develop a hiring database. I can use Infopath 2010, SPD 2010 and OOTB features only with minimal JScript. HR will initiate a contractor hire request. This will
go through an approval workflow. Till here it is fine as its basic.
Inactivation: At any point of time they can Inactivate the contract. They need to populate the details like why they are inactivating and others. This is part of the same Infopath form with a different view for Inactivation.
Renewal: Near the end date of the contract, HR should be notified to Renew the contract which i have achieved by adding Retention stage and initiating a workflow. There will be multiple renewals for the same contractor.
Re-hire: If a contractor has been inactivated, he can be re-hired. This should allow HR to create a form and send for approvals again, similar to Hiring process.
My issue: How do I link multiple renewals in the same Infopath form? I tried utilizing Content Types for various scenarios, but I do not have a way to link these. If Renewal is a different content type than main request, then I need to automatically
populate field from the main request form onto the Renewal content type form. The ID of this form will be different from the main request. Even if i'm able to do this for first Renewal, how to accomplish when second Renewal comes up? For Re-hire, if it is
a separate content type, then again, how do I link it to the main request?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Regards, Kapil ***Please mark answer as Helpful or Answered after consideration***

Content types are overcomplicating this. Use a single content type and multiple views: Initiated, Active, Inactive.
Id do all of the state changes through workflows. That way you can have a 'De-activate' workflow that prompts your HR team for the details needed, a 'Renewal' workflow which you've already got, a 'Re-hire' workflow to capture the new data etc.
To make it a little more pleasant to use you can create custom actions to add the workflows to the edit menu so it's nice and easy to get to for your users.

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