Page 44 - Reserve Forces News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Monday, April 26, 2021 The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (“USERRA”) may require employers to pay employees for reserve duty if they provide paid leave for other, “comparable” absences from work, according to a February 3, 2021 decision of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in  White v. United Airlines, which reversed and remanded a decision of the Northern District of Illinois dismissing the plaintiff United pilots’ putative class action. 1 The plaintiff pilots in  White serve in the U.S. Military Reserve Forces, and argued that USERRA requ...

A SCHOOL’S combined cadet force is celebrating after three of its company were recruited to assist the Queen’s representative in County Durham. Barnard Castle School students Colour Sergeant Kieran Bleasby, 17, Regimental Sergeant Major Hamish McAllister and Company Sergeant Major Ted Hamilton, both 18, will accompany Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of County Durham Sue Snowdon over the coming year in a variety of duties. At the end of last year, the trio were rewarded for their Combined Cadet Force efforts by being named Master Cadets. The Lord-Lieutenant appoints a number of cad...

MANILA, Apr. 3 -- With the goal of augmenting hospital capacities following the increased occupancy rates in NCR hospitals, the Department of Health (DOH), the World Health Organization (WHO), and UNICEF are fast tracking the delivery and set up of modular tents in hospitals across Metro Manila. As of writing, eight (8) NCR hospitals have requested the setting up of modular tents, namely: Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center (JRRMMC) at the Quezon Institute (QI), Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital and Sanitarium (Tala), Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center, Tondo Medical Center, National...

Daily Monitor Wednesday March 17 2021 UPDF soldiers in Somalia mount a guard of honour for the Chief of Defence Forces, Gen David Muhoozi, during his official visit to Mogadishu on August 15, 2017. PHOTO/COURTESY Summary Of the five African countries with troops in Somalia, Uganda has the highest number, with 6,000 soldiers deployed to Benadir region whose headquarters is Mogadishu. Advertisement At least 1,300 army veterans have reported to Singo Peace Support Training Centre for training before they are deployed to Somalia in October. Uganda is planning to send 2,752 UPDF reservists who are...

Reservists deployed to assist with Covid support efforts. NW RFCA Crown Copyright 2021. Our Reserve Forces have been providing a valuable contribution to the various strands of assistance to civil authorities since early last year, but this is the first time a formed force of this size, comprised solely of Reservists has been generated for a bespoke task. Each element is integrated with a Regular Army unit headquarters already supporting delivery of community testing in Greater Manchester. A total of 82 Reserve personnel have been deployed, with the Army component of 29 soldiers drawn...