The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) establishes certain rights for employees of private employers who serve in the uniformed services. Specifically, USERRA prohibits private employers from discriminating or retaliating against such employees based on their uniformed service and ensures that those employees receive certain benefits and reemployment rights, as well as limited protection from termination, upon return from military leave. This chapter provides a summary of USERRA’s provisions.
Maryland has a military leave statute that offers certain protections to public sector employees of the state of Maryland, but not employees of any other political subdivisions or of private companies, who are in the military and who are absent from work due to military leave.
Any person who is a member of the “uniformed services” of the United States (or who applies to be a member of the uniformed services) is entitled to protection from discrimination or retaliation under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). In addition, persons who are absent from their regular employment due to “service in the uniformed services” are entitled to...
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