Employer Information
Frequently Asked Questions:
- What are the uniformed services?
- What is "service in the uniformed services?"
- Does USERRA apply to voluntary service?
- How much notice can I expect, prior to a period of service?
- Is the reservist or National Guard member required to provide me a copy of his or her military orders, when he or she gives me notice of an upcoming period of service?
- I have an employee who takes a lot of time off for military training and service. Now, she has asked for time off for a time that is particularly inconvenient for me. Am I permitted to veto her request for military leave?
- Am I permitted to make the employee-reservist find a replacement for the time that he or she will be away from work performing service?
- Am I permitted to make the employee use vacation for his or her military training or service?
- Am I required to pay the employee for the period that he or she is away from work performing military training or service?
- Is the employee entitled to other benefits of employment while away from work performing service?
- After a period of military training or service, how quickly is the employee required to return to work?
- If the employee is one day late in reporting for work or submitting an application for reemployment, does he or she lose the right to the job?
- What does it mean to “submit an application for reemployment?”
- How quickly am I required to put the returning employee back to work?
- The manager of an important facility was called to active duty more than a year ago. I filled the position, and the new manager has worked out great. Reinstating the returning reservist would mean displacing one of the best managers I have ever had, and that would cause great disruption. Am I required to reinstate the returning reservist?
- I propose to reinstate the returning reservist as the assistant manager of the department, and I will increase the assistant manager’s salary to equal that of the manager. Is that sufficient?
- Other than status and prompt reinstatement, what are the other entitlements of the returning veteran?
- At our company, employees (as well as the employer) contribute to the pension plan. Is the returning veteran required to contribute that which he or she would have contributed if continuously employed? Is there a deadline for making up missed contributions?
- Having a reservist or National Guard member on the payroll sounds like a big hassle. I don’t think that I will hire any more of them.
