T.M. Lindsay over at Iowa Independent recently wrote a piece about a recent House Democratic proposal to help soldiers keep & retain their jobs upon return from service in the National Guard or Reserves:
The last thing Iowa’s National Guard and reserve soldiers need to worry about while deployed to war is whether or not they’ll have a job when they return to their civilian lives. Knowing this, the federal government passed USERRA (Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act) in 1994 to help protect the soldiers’ jobs, and now Iowa lawmakers want to enact a measure that would give the state more power to enforce the law.
At a Statehouse news conference Thursday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, D-Des Moines, and Rep. McKinley Bailey, D-Webster City, an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran, announced the proposed legislation. While the federal law requires employers to hold a position for a returning soldier, backers of the new proposal contend that if an employer is not fully compliant with the law, a soldier’s only recourse is to file a lawsuit that can take years to resolve.
“It puts some more teeth into it,” said McCarthy. “It’s a more streamlined process, a process that’s closer to home.”
There are a number of other stories about the proposal:
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Support for Iowa’s veterans should be a #1 priority for everyone – Democrat & Republican’s alike. What are your plans for further efforts on state funding for college tuition for veterans?