Returning employees from military

Returning service members must be promptly re-employed upon making timely application for employment following completion of military service. Further, the employer must apply the "escalator principal, " a guideline that specifies that the individual be re-employed with the same seniority, status, and pay they would have attained if continuously employed.

The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act or USERRA is the federal law that details workplace rights for military service members while they are on active duty and upon return to civilian life. Regulations enforcing this law are administered by the U.S. Department of Labor.