A new federal court ruling has huge significance for military reservists
By: Andrew Tilghman, October 15, 2016
A high-level federal court on Friday delivered a blow to the rights of military reservists.
The case involved a Navy reservist who claimed that his civilian employer fired him because he was mobilized and deployed to Afghanistan, a violation of federal laws designed to protect reservists from discrimination based on their military service. But Kevin Ziober lost his case before the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, one step below the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that his pre-employment arbitration agreement prohibited him from suing his former employer.
And although the court ruled against Ziober, the judge appeared to urge Congress to consider changing or strengthening the 1994 law, the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, or USERRA.
http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/uniformed-services-employment-reemployment-rights-act-ziober-ninth-circuit
