Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 01/09/1995

Restoration to Duty From Uniformed Service or Compensable Injury

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing interim regulations on the restoration rights of Federal employees who leave their employment to perform duty with the uniformed services. These regulations implement the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA), Public Law 103-353, which was enacted into law on October 13, 1994. The new law revises and restructures the Veteran's Reemployment Rights law (codified in chapter 43 of title 38, United States Code), which governs the restoration rights of employees who perform military duty. USERRA clarifies, expands, and strengthens the rights and benefits of applicants and employees, alters the appeal procedures available to Federal employees, and, for the first time, provides Federal employees Department of Labor assistance in processing claims. USERRA also requires OPM to place certain returning employees when their former agencies determine that it is ``impossible or unreasonable'' to reemploy them. Although the sections have been renumbered, and in some cases renamed, there is no substantive change in the regulations governing the restoration rights of employees who sustain compensable injuries. H