Sunday, March 04, 2007
Reserves losing their jobs while in Iraq
And the law is quite explicit in saying that should not happen. It also has a limited enforcement arm to insure compliance. As a result, there is little or no enforcement and businesses, and the government itself, are refusing to rehire returning veterans. Ann McFeatters, writing in the Toledo Blade has some of the shameless details.
An Air Force nurse with 32 years in the military, seven in active duty, and nearly two-dozen medals for valor and service, was terminated from her civilian health-care job of 10 years when she was sent to Iraq for four months last year...When even the government does it, how can any business hold back? And when is any business going to tell you the real reason when they know they are breaking the law? Just another example of Republican values, Love the War and Hate The Troops.
...Last November, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management sent its annual report to Congress on veterans and disabled veterans working for the federal government. The press release said, "And by every measure, the Bush Administration is living up to its commitment to make career opportunities available to soldiers, sailors, and airmen." The report said the total number of veterans employed in 2005 out of a federal government work force of 1.8 million was 456,254. But the number of veterans newly hired in 2005 was only 5,000 more than the number hired in 2004.
That was also when 36 members of the Florida National Guard got letters, while serving in combat in Iraq, informing them that their jobs in a federal drug-interdiction program were abolished.
The Denver magazine report told of a 53-year-old Marine, in the service for 29 years, who deployed for nine months in Kuwait and Iraq in 2002 and 2003.
When he got home, he was fired from his $88,000-a-year job in a firm where he'd worked for 19 years. He was allegedly told by the Department of Labor, where his commanding officer referred him, that he didn't have a legal case unless he heard somebody say he was fired because of his military service.
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Nice blog. I saw you over at Mike the Mad Biologist and thought that I would check it out.
I am going to add you to my blogroll, probably under Fellow Liberals and Assorted Sycophants. Here is my website if you want to check it out (no obligation):
http://lauralinger.blogspot.com/
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