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Almost half of the men and women serving in our armed forces are members of the National Guard and Reserve. After almost two decades at war, it is virtually inescapable that employers will hire employees with military service or their spouses, so it is important to be aware of the specific laws that protect service members and their families as they balance civilian and military careers, namely the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA). Recognizing that employees are a company s best asset, businesses that invest in their teams in these ways typically enjoy faster growth and outpace their competition.
Monday, March 15, 2021 And the sign said, Long-haired freaky people … need not apply. – Signs, Five Man Electrical Band, Good-byes and Butterflies (1970)
Arbitrary judgments are as old as humanity itself. Law evolved in part to try to spare us all from some of them and provide order and predictability in their place. That evolution, and occasional revolution, eventually gave rise to notions of due process, which in the United States presume that citizens know, or have an opportunity to know, what their laws require so that they may govern their conduct accordingly and avoid liability or, worse, prosecution, for having violated them.
By TARA COPP | McClatchy Washington Bureau | Published: March 1, 2021 WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) The U.S. Supreme Court has asked the U.S. solicitor general to weigh in on the case of a Texas state trooper who was fired from his job after he came home from a military deployment in Iraq too ill to patrol, in a lawsuit that could determine whether federal protections for service members apply to state employees. The orders to the solicitor general, which posted on the Supreme Court’s website on Monday morning, “means they [justices] believe the case has national importance that affects the interest of the United States,” said Andrew Tutt, an attorney with Arnold & Porter, which was one of the firms petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case.
By TARA COPP | McClatchy Washington Bureau | Published: February 25, 2021 WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) The U.S. Supreme Court was to hold a private conference Thursday to consider whether the case of a fired Texas state trooper merits adding to its docket due to the larger question it raises: Does a state’s sovereignty outweigh federal powers to build armies? The case of LeRoy Torres v. The Texas Department of Public Safety involves a 14-year Texas state trooper who deployed to Balad, Iraq, in 2007 with the Army National Guard. Torres says he spent a year there inhaling toxic air from the base’s massive open-air trash burning pits.