Air Force Vet Wants Army Corps Job Back

Here's a little Veterans Day reminder from the Office of Special Counsel: You're not supposed to deny reemployment rights to employees who leave to serve in the military--even if you're a Defense Department organization. OSC has petitioned the Merit Systems Protection Board to force the Army Corps of Engineers' Jacksonville District to give Russell G. Jones his job back. Jones had left the Army Corps for a tour of duty with the Air Force, but the agency refused to give him his old job back when he finished--despite the fact that, according to OSC, "there was no change in the agency’s circumstances that made it impossible or unreasonable to reemploy Jones." That, OSC says, is a clear violation of the 1994 Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.