"Mark Browne" wrote in message
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"John H" wrote in message
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Dr. Tooth,
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Just for fun, comment on the crop of reservists returning to the job
market
when the come back from the big sandbox?

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Just to answer one of your comments - you may be interested in the
following excerpt:

Employment and Reemployment Rights


The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994
(USERRA), enacted October 13, 1994 (Title 38 U.S. Code, Chapter 43,
Sections 4301-4333, Public Law 103-353), significantly strengthens and
expands the employment and reemployment rights of all uniformed
service members.

Who's eligible for reemployment?

"Service in the uniformed services" and "uniformed services" defined
-- (38 U.S.C. Section 4303 (13 & 16)

Reemployment rights extend to persons who have been absent from a
position of employment because of "service in the uniformed services."
"Service in the uniformed services" means the performance of duty on a
voluntary or involuntary basis in a uniformed service, including:

· Active duty

· Active duty for training

· Initial active duty for training

· Inactive duty training

· Full-time National Guard duty.

· Absence from work for an examination to determine a person's
fitness for any of the above types of duty.


· Funeral honors duty performed by National Guard or reserve
members.

· Duty performed by intermittent disaster response personnel for
the Public Health Service, and approved training to prepare for such
service (added by Pub. L. 107-188, June 2002). See Title 42, U.S.
Code, section 300hh-11(e).

For more info, go to:
http://www.dol.gov/vets/whatsnew/userraguide0903.rtf




John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

John,

I was already aware of the right to return to their previous jobs. There
is
no question about the right of these people to return to their jobs, if
the
job still exists.

A lot of self employed folk will have a hard time re-building their
companies after a years absence. They have been away long enough that
their
clients have had to find another source of supply for their services.
Consider how this could affect a news-group regular, such as Dr. Tooth. If
Nobby had to go away for a year of service, it might take a long time to
re-build his practice to the point where it is at now. Those huge loans
might even pose a serious burden for him. Naturally, this is a
hypothetical
situation because he was much too smart to sign up for the guard!

Primarily, the question I posed for NYOB is about the folks that will be
bumped when the military guy comes back for his job. These newly
unemployed
persons will add to the glut of job seekers. The first wave will be
released back to the market just before the 2004 graduation class hits.

If I were a betting man, I would go for good odds on a rise in the number
of
job seekers that can't find meaningful work.

How many reservists are you talking about? How many will actually be
reentering the job market and displacing other workers?

We have approximately 146.43 million potential workers in this country. 8.2
million of them are unemployed...giving us an unemployment rate of 5.6%.

If you add 150,000 people to our labor market (although there won't be
150,000 returning all at once), and NONE of them find a job (very unlikely),
then we'd have an increase that wouldn't even be noticed by any of the major
statistics that the BLS uses.

Example:
We'd then have 146.58 million workers
We'd have 8.15 million unemployed
We'd still have an unemployment rate of 5.6%!!!