Definition: The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act protects service members’ employment rights when they return from a period of service, including those in the reserves and National Guard.
USERRA holds that returning service-members can be reemployed in the job that they would have attained had they not been absent for military service, with the same status and pay.
The law also requires that training is given to returning service-members to refresh or upgrade their skills for reemployment.
USERRA also states that while a service-member is performing military service, he or she is deemed to be on a leave of absence, and is entitled to the same leave of absence rights as other employees.
