From: Patrick Jankowiak (eccm@swbell.net)
Date: Thu Mar 20 2003 - 19:25:41 PST
It is always easy for a corporation to allege any reason for
termination, and create or set up a smoke screen. Anyone who thinks HR
departments are there to protect the employee is mistaken. I work
amidst liberals and the french (and now peace protesters I recently
find). Will I be next?
FireflyArms wrote:
>
> Sorry for taking up bandwidth with this but...
>
> If you read the article, you'll see that in both of the cases mentioned the
> employees were terminated for "poor job performance" NOT specifically because
> of their military service.
>
> As in everything we read/see/hear in the media, I'm sure there are two sides
> to this story. I'll prefer to remember the phrase "innocent until proven
> guilty" and withold my personal Pep Boys boycott until the case is settled in
> court.
>
> Sam B.
> http://www.fireflyarms.com
>
> >===== Original Message From Ryan M Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> =====
> >At 10:46 AM -0600 3/19/03, J Travis wrote:
> >>I thought there was a law on the books against that? (There should
> >>be, anyway.)
> >
> >There is a law, which makes Pep-Boys decisions all the more stupid.
> >
> >Section 4311(a) of USERRA provides as follows:
> >A person who is a member of, applies to be a member of, performs, has
> >performed, applies to perform or has an obligation to perform in a
> >uniformed service shall not be denied initial employment,
> >re-employment, retention in employment, promotion or any benefit of
> >employment by an employer on the basis of that membership,
> >application for membership, performance of service, application for
> >service or obligation
> >--
> > Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
>
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