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Returning Soldiers Struggle To Find Jobs
Posted on Nov 02, 2009
After ten months duty in Iraq, Indiana National Guardsmen are finding some difficulty finding jobs when they return home. MSNBC reports, "Guardsmen Now In Battle To Find Jobs."
USERRA outlaws discrimination against a soldier because of his or her military service by providing that a person who is a member of a uniformed service shall not be denied initial employment, reemployment, retention in employment, promotion or any benefit of employment by an employer on the basis of that membership in a military service. USERRA, the report states, is of little help where jobs have vanished.
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