USERRA requires that servicemembers who conclude their tours of duty and who are reemployed by their civilian employers receive all benefits of employment that they would have obtained if they had been continuously employed, except those benefits that are considered a form of short-term compensation, such as accrued paid vacation. If a servicemember had been continuously employed, one such benefit to which he or she might have been entitled is leave under the FMLA. The servicemember’s eligibility will depend upon whether the servicemember would have met the employee eligibility requirements outlined above had he or she not performed USERRA-covered service.
October 2018
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