As the war goes on and employers wary of seeing their Guard and Reserve members leave every three to four years for deployment (not counting training times and weekend drills), violations of upholding USERRA are bound to occur. Matthew Tully, the attorney and National Guard major I mentioned in my last post,  told me there

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Employer discrimination towards Guard and Reserve members is not a new phenomenon. But I believe it is a growing one. I asked Major Melissa Phillips with the ESGR if the increase in requests in 2008 for information was any indicator at all that more employers are becoming more inclined to discriminate and she said they’ve

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