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USERRA Notice

Department of Labor

The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), Pub. L. 103–353, 108 Stat.
3150 (codified at 38 U.S.C. 4301–4333), became law on October 13, 1994, replacing the Veterans’ Reemployment Rights Act (VRRA). Congress enacted USERRA, in part, to clarify the ambiguities of the VRRA and strengthen the rights of service members and veterans. USERRA’s guiding principle is that a person who leaves civilian employment to perform service in the uniformed services is entitled to return to that job with the seniority, status, and rate of pay that would have accrued during the absence, provided the person meets USERRA’s eligibility criteria.
USERRA applies to voluntary or involuntary military service in peacetime as well as wartime. Its provisions apply to virtually all employers, regardless of size. USERRA also codifies 54 years of accumulated case law and clarifies previously existing rights and obligations. For most purposes, USERRA applies to reemployments initiated on or after December 12, 1994. Congress enacted amendments to the Act in 1996, 1998, and 2000

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