Book Description

In the wake of the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, thousands of current and former military servicemembers are undergoing a transition between their military service and their civilian employment. Congress enacted the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) to protect the employment and reemployment rights of federal and nonfederal employees when they leave their employment to perform military or other uniformed service. Among other rights, servicemembers who meet the statutory requirements are entitled to reinstatement to the positions they would have held if they had never left their employment or to positions of like seniority, status, and pay. This report focuses on servicemembers who are employees of, prior employees of, and applicants to, federal executive agencies. The objective was to determine the extent to which the methods and procedures the Dept. of Labor (DOL) and the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) selected for the demonstration project allow for a later assessment and comparison of the agencies' relative performance investigating and resolving USERRA claims. Figures. This is a print on demand report.