1.1.1.8 Federal Government

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No. 034 Applicability of USERRA to Legislative and Judicial Branches
No. 102 Does USERRA Apply to Non-Appropriated Fund Activities?
No. 108 Letter to Federal Agency Concerning USERRA Case Involving an Agency Employee
No. 163 USERRA Applies to State Department Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality at Embassy
No. 167 Pension Rights of Federal Employees Returning From Military Service
No. 177 Does USERRA Apply to the Railroad Retirement System?
No. 189 Appellate Review of MSPB Decisions on USERRA
No. 191 Sometimes David Does Beat Goliath
No. 0614 Trilogy of New Rulings Affects Federal Employees
No. 0637 Does USERRA Apply to TSA Screeners?
No. 0727 Federal Government Considered “Model Employer” Under USERRA
No. 0729 Kirkendall-VEOA and Equitable Tolling of Claim
No. 0730 Are Schedule C Employees Protected by USERRA?
No. 0740 Federal Employees Protected from RIF During Military Service
No. 0752 Habit Forming: Federal Circuit Reverses MSPB Two More Times
No. 0755 The Federal Case: A Description of USERRA’s Enforcement Mechanisms for Complaints by Federal Government Employees
No. 0763 The Office of Personnel Management Has Specific Responsibilities under USERRA
No. 0813 Despite Its Longtime Contention, AAFES Is Not Exempt from USERRA
No. 0852 Intelligence Not Superior: USERRA applies to Intelligence agencies
No. 0855 Mobilized Reservist Should Not Miss Out on Promotion Opportunities
No. 09004 How to Prove a USERRA Discrimination Case—Continued
No. 09037 You Must Apply for Reemployment-Part 2
No. 09053 Joint Employment Doctrine Under USERRA-Continued
No. 09053 Update OSC Settles USERRA Case with DHS
No. 09063 You Must Apply for Reemployment – Part 3
No. 10012 You Only Get One Chance To Make Your Case
No. 10016 Army Command Violates USERRA with respect to Hiring Government Contractor Employees as Federal Employees
No. 10017 DLA Violates USERRA
No. 10021 The Civilian Employer Does Not Get a Veto
*No. 10028 A Case Study of 38 U.S.C. Sections 4311 and 4312: Erickson v. United States Postal Service
No. 10044 Federal Agency Employer Cannot Make You Quit the Reserves
No. 10054 Don’t Do Your Reserve Work on Your Employer’s Time
No. 10066 USERRA Overrides Federal Agency Rule on “Outside Employment”
No. 10080 Congress Orders a New Demonstration Project on USERRA Enforcement
No. 10087 USERRA Forbids Discrimination in Initial Employment
No. 11003 The MSPB Is Finally Catching On
No. 11015 No Age Limit on USERRA Protection
No. 11026 Can We Fire Him for Going over the Five-Year Limit?
No. 11028 Erickson v. United States Postal Service – Recent Implications to 38 U.S.C. 4311 & 4312
No. 11034 Protection against Discharge after Reemployment
No. 11050 TSP and USERRA
No. 11058 Letter to DOJ about USERRA Enforcement
No. 11061 Training Federal HR Personnel on USERRA
No. 11063 New Special Counsel Pledges Diligent USERRA Enforcement
No. 11080 It Is Not Your Responsibility to Find a Replacement
No. 11111 Conflict Between National Guard Drill and Civilian Job
No. 12020 Reservists Should Be Permitted to Take Licensed Customs Broker Exams
No. 12023 You Must Stay Within the Five-Year Limit to Have the Right to Reemployment
No. 12035 OPM Director Announces Zero Tolerance for USERRA Violations
No. 12076 Presidential Memorandum Gives Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) Guidance to Federal Employers
No. 12086 TSA Screeners Now Finally Have Enforceable USERRA Rights
No. 12096 Army Cadet Command Implicitly Admits that it Violated USERRA in its Treatment of ROTC Employee Michael Hanke
No. 12114 USERRA Does Not Apply to PHS Selection of PHS Officers
No. 13021 Sergeant Major Erickson’s Struggle against the United States Postal Service Continues
No. 13025 The Escalator and the Sequester
No. 13058 Time off from Civilian Job for Travel and Rest in Connection with Drill Weekend
No. 13085 Federal Employees Are Protected from the Descending Escalator
No. 13097 What Is a “Title 38 Employee?”
No. 13098 Interesting MSPB Case on USERRA
No. 13115 Notice to your Civilian Employer before AGR Duty
No. 13118 Paid Military Leave for Military Retiree Who Returns to Active Duty
No. 13147 OSC Effectiveness in Enforcing USERRA against Federal Agencies as Employers
No. 13148 Federal Agencies Must Train Supervisors on USERRA
No. 13149 DOL Must Comply with USERRA with respect to its own Employees if it is to be Effective with other Employers
No. 13160 Significant Development Regarding Differential Pay for Federal Employees Mobilized Under “Voluntary” Authority
No. 14004 Sergeant Major Erickson’s Saga Continues
No. 14005 Abandonment Doctrine Rests on Slender Reed
No. 14028 I Volunteered for Active Duty—Am I Elligible for Differential Pay as a Federal Civilian?
No. 14030 One Week of Excused Absence for Federal Employee Returning from Mobilization
No. 15050 Reemployment Rights as an ANG Technician
No. 15056 What Is “Service in the Uniformed Services” for USERRA Purposes?
No. 15064 The MSPB Adjudicates Claims that Federal Executive Agencies Have Violated USERRA
No. 15080 New NLRB Decision Points the Way to Stronger USERRA Enforcement
No. 15103 Coast Guard Reservist Alleges USERRA Violations by Drug Enforcement Administration
No. 15112 Which Employers Are Exempt from USERRA Enforcement?
No. 15116 New USERRA Primer
No. 16012 Enforcing USERRA against a Federal Agency
No. 16013 Recent Favorable Federal Circuit USERRA Decision
No. 16014 Another Recent Federal Sector USERRA Victory
No. 16021 Does USERRA Give me the Right to Time Off from my Civilian Job for an Interview about Reassignment to a new Guard Unit?
No. 16036 It Is Illegal for the Air Force To Discriminate against an Air Force Reservist in Hiring for a Civilian Position
No. 16055 Department of the Army Flouts USERRA
No. 16064 The Air Force Must Comply with USERRA
No. 16077 USERRA Gives you the Right to Time off from your Federal Civilian Job for Inactive Duty Training on a Weekday
No. 16093 Section 4312(e)(1)(A) Authorizes a Delay in your Application for Reemployment; It Does not Give you Two Years off from Work.
No. 16106 How Does Section 4318 of USERRA Apply to the Regular Military Retiree who Leaves a Federal Civilian Job To Return to Active Duty, Completes a Period of Voluntary Active Duty, Returns to Federal Civilian Employment, and then Retires?
No. 16116 New Federal Employee Should Make Deposit for Previous Active Duty
No. 16121 When I Return to Work after Military Service, How Much Will I Have To Pay To Reinstate my FERS Retirement Account?
No. 17009 If you Are Claiming that the Firing Violates USERRA, you Can Appeal to the MSPB even if you Are a New Federal Employee
No. 17024 Don’t Apply for Reemployment until you Are Ready To Return to Work
No. 17028 Federal Employee Is Exempted from the Descending Escalator
No. 17029 USERRA Applies all over the World to the United States Government and other United States Employers
No. 17030 Is a National Guard Member on Active Duty Eligible To Vote in an NLRB Union Representation Election at her Civilian Workplace?
No. 17076 USERRA and Federal Employees
No. 17077 USERRA Rights of the Returning Veteran Trump the Rights of the Incumbent
No. 17097 The Escalator Does Not Always Ascend
No. 17098 The No FEAR Act Does Not Apply to Discrimination against Reserve Component Service Members
No. 17107 Don’t File an EEO Complaint for a USERRA Violation
No. 17114 The MSPB Has Ground to a Halt
No. 18014 Escalator Principle Applies to Army Physician
No. 18018 If You Are Claiming a USERRA Violation, the MSPB Has Jurisdiction To Review Your Firing even if You Have Not Completed the Initial Year of Federal Employment
No. 18025 OSC Acts To Enforce USERRA against the USPS
No. 18027 The USPS Is a “Federal Executive Agency” for Purposes of USERRA
No. 18030 Great New Federal Circuit Case about Paid Military Leave for Federal Employees
No. 18038 You Must Use Your 22 Extra Days of Paid Military Leave During your Period of Contingency Active Duty
No. 18042 Coast Guard Reservist Loses USERRA Case at MSPB and Federal Circuit
No. 18047 Sections 4314 and 4315 of USERRA-OPM’s Responsibilities under USERRA
No. 18052 A Federal Agency Cannot Make You Quit the Reserves—Part 2
No. 18055 You Must Track your own Five-Year Limit—Part 2
No. 18063 USERRA’s Final Section Requires Federal Agencies To Train Human Resources Personnel on USERRA
No. 18069 Relocation Bonus Contract Does Not Override USERRA
No. 18072 Don’t Apply for Reemployment until you Are Ready To Return to Work—Part 2
No. 18079 Is the Federal Government a Single Employer for Purposes of USERRA’s Five-Year Limit?—I Have Reconsidered.
No. 18096 Logjam at MSPB Continues
No. 18097 Am I Eligible for the Extra 22 Days of Paid Military Leave as a Federal Civilian Employee?
No. 18101 Extra 22 Days of Paid Military Leave for RC Members on Active Duty in Support of Contingency Operations
No. 18102 Differential Pay for Federal Civilian Employees Who Are Called to the Colors
No. 18108 AFTPs in the Army as well as the Air Force and for Enlisted Crew Members as well as Pilot Officers
No. 18110 USERRA’s Escalator Can Descend as well as Ascend
No. 18111 Right to Reemployment in a Term-Limited Federal Job
No. 19004 Relationship between 5 U.S.C. 8332(c)(2) and 38 U.S.C. 4318
No. 19015 Applying USERRA to the National Guard Technician
No. 19018 Returning to a Federal Civilian Job while on Terminal Leave
No. 19037 Army Command’s Civilian Personnel Office Needs To Be Retrained on USERRA
No. 19041 Enforcing USERRA against a Federal Agency Employer
No. 19051 The Federal Circuit Reverses the MSPB yet again
No. 19067 You Don’t Need Prior Approval of your Federal Agency Employer To Join a Reserve Component of the Armed Forces
No. 19069 Federal Employee away from Work for Uniformed Service Is Entitled to Step Increase upon Reemployment, Not during Service
No. 19074 State Laws Protecting the Civilian Jobs of National Guard Members on State Active Duty—Do they Apply to Federal Employees?
No. 19079 Military Service during your Career as a Federal Civilian Employee—What Effect on your Civilian Retirement?
No. 19081 What Is a Reserve Component Technician?
No. 19082 Special Additional Sick Leave for New Federal Employees who Are Disabled Veterans
No. 19087 Do I Have To Work on my Day Off? Part Two
No. 19095 Your Civilian Employer Cannot Make You Quit the Army Reserve, but the Army Reserve May Screen you out Because you Are a Key Employee.
No. 19096 I Have Been Denied the Right To Telework because of my USAR Service
No. 19097 Important 2018 Supreme Court Case on SEC ALJs—What Does it Mean for MSPB AJs?
No. 19098 Logjam at the MSPB—When Will it ever End?
No. 20031 Sergeant Major Erickson’s Long Struggle with the USPS May Be Finally Coming to an End
No. 20032 Enforcement Procedure for Federal Employee USERRA Complaints
No. 20042 EEOC Flouts USERRA
No. 20049 USERRA Forbids Employer Harassment of Reserve Component Personnel
No. 20050 Location Is an Aspect of Status
No. 20051 Paid Military Leave and Differential Pay for Federal Civilian Employees Who Are Members of the National Guard or Reserve
No. 20053 Returning to Work for a Different Federal Agency—Be Sure that you Get USERRA Pension Credit for your Period of Service
No. 20058 Paid Military Leave for Federal Civilian Employees
No. 20059 The USPS and USERRA
No. 21021 Veterans’ Preference in the Excepted Service
No. 21024 Federal Employee Called to the Colors as RC Member Is Entitled to Continued Civilian Health Insurance Coverage for Free
No. 21027 Employers and Supervisors: Saying “Thank You for Your Service” Is Not Enough.
No. 21055 As a Civilian Employer, the Department of the Navy Must Be Triply the Model Employer.
No. 21076 ROA Helps Enlisted Air National Guard Member who Is a Federal Employee To Receive Differential Pay for Active-Duty Periods.
No. 21077 Paid Military Leave for Federal Employees
No. 21080 Your Employer Violated USERRA Willfully, But under Current Law You Are Not Entitled to Monetary Damages. USERRA Needs To Be Amended.
No. 22010 When You Leave a Federal Agency for Military Service, I Suggest that You Apply for Reemployment at the Same Agency, but Applying at a Different Agency May Not Be Fatal to Your Rights.
No. 22011 You Are Entitled to Federal Civilian Pension Credit for your 1988-91 Active Duty Period, But Not under USERRA.
No. 22012 Securing your Pension Rights when you Return to Federal Civilian Employment after Military Service
No. 22016 When You Returned to Federal Civilian Employment, after Active Duty, in October2012, You Should Have Received Step Increases Based on Credit for your Military Service. Perhaps it Is Not Too Late To Fix This.
No. 22018 No Statute of Limitations Limits when you Can Initiate a USERRA Complaint.
No. 22026 Four Distinct Statuses for National Guard Members
No. 22037 Depriving You of Paid Military Leave under 5 U.S.C. § 6323 Violates USERRA.
No. 22038 Good News: The MSPB Finally Has a Quorum.
No. 22042 As the Personnel Chief of a Reserve Component, What Do I Need to Know about USERRA? And What Can I Do to Help Reservists Manage their Relationships with their Civilian Employers?
No. 22052 A Federal Employee Has only 45 Days To File an EEO Complaint, But That Deadline Does Not Apply to USERRA Complaints
No. 22053 Joe Smith Has the Right to Reemployment at your Federal Agency, Despite his “Resignation” when he Left his Job to Enlist in the Army.
No. 22056 It Is Unlawful for your Pre-Service Employer, a Federal Agency, To Fire you for Exceeding the Five-Year Limit.
No. 22074 Do Not Give your Civilian Employer “Ammunition” in Support of an Argument that you Have “Abandoned” your Civilian Career.
No. 23005 Brigadier General Michael J. Silva Won an Important, Precedent-Setting USERRA Case in 2009 Preserving USERRA Rights for Dual Employees
No. 23024 Enforcing USERRA against a Federal Agency Employer
No. 23027 What Is a Prohibited Personnel Practice (PPP)? My Federal Supervisor Has Willfully Violated USERRA. Is that a PPP?
No. 23029 PHS Officers Are Protected by USERRA, But PHS Officers Are Not Entitled to Paid Military Leave under 5 U.S.C. § 6323.
No. 23030 The Wrong Way To Assert that your Employer Violated USERRA

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