Many Reservists Losing Civilian Jobs

[phillybri]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040816/ap_on_re_us/returning_from_war_guard

WASHINGTON - Benefits reduced. Promotions forgotten. Jobs gone. It's tough to find these conditions when returning home from the mean streets of Iraq (news - web sites), ready to resume your civilian career. Increasing numbers of National Guard and Reserve troops returning home are experiencing just such disappointment.

Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Labor Department (news - web sites) reports receiving greater numbers of complaints under a 1994 law that is primarily designed to give Guard and Reserve troops their old jobs back, or provide them with equivalent positions.

Benefits and raises must be protected, as if the serviceman or servicewoman had never left.

Labor Department officials said only a nationwide campaign to educate employers about the law prevented the problem from getting even worse.

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[Bluebear]

1. "Nobody forced them to enlist, too bad."

That will be the neocon reply.

[devlin radiset]

2. hard to believe employers don't know the law on this one n/t

[yellowcanine]

3. So not only are they subject to a back door draft but when they finally do

get out they have no job. Nice going, Bush.

[CarolynEC]

4. Welcome to George Bush's America, returning vets...

... and by the way, any medals you may have been awarded, you're going to have to prove -- over and over again -- that you actually earned them. Otherwise, we'll just assume you're a liar and a coward.

Argh! :grr:

I'm so frikkin pissed! Why the military vote is not a LOCK for JK, is totally beyond me.

[AG78]

5. PMC's

Private Military Contractors.

Ahhhh, the future.