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CHAPTER 43⁠—EMPLOYMENT AND REEMPLOYMENT RIGHTS OF MEMBERS OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES — Front Matter

Chap.Sec.
4301.Purposes; sense of Congress.
4302.Relation to other law and plans or agreements.
4303.Definitions.
4304.Character of service.
4311.Discrimination against persons who serve in the uniformed services and acts of reprisal prohibited.
4312.Reemployment rights of persons who serve in the uniformed services.
4313.Reemployment positions.
4314.Reemployment by the Federal Government.
4315.Reemployment by certain Federal agencies.
4316.Rights, benefits, and obligations of persons absent from employment for service in a uniformed service.
4317.Health plans.
4318.Employee pension benefit plans.
4319.Employment and reemployment rights in foreign countries.
4321.Assistance in obtaining reemployment or other employment rights or benefits.
4322.Enforcement of employment or reemployment rights.
4323.Enforcement of rights with respect to a State or private employer.
4324.Enforcement of rights with respect to Federal executive agencies.
4325.Enforcement of rights with respect to certain Federal agencies.
4326.Conduct of investigation; subpoenas.
4327.Noncompliance of Federal officials with deadlines; inapplicability of statutes of limitations.
4331.Regulations.
4332.Reports.
4333.Outreach.
4334.Notice of rights and duties.
4335.Training for Federal executive agency human resources personnel on employment and reemployment rights and limitations.

Editorial Notes

Codification

This chapter was originally added by Pub. L. 93–508, title IV, § 404(a), Dec. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1594, and amended by Pub. L. 94–286, May 14, 1976, 90 Stat. 517; Pub. L. 94–502, Oct. 15, 1976, 90 Stat. 2383; Pub. L. 96–466, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2171; Pub. L. 97–295, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1287; Pub. L. 98–620, Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3335; Pub. L. 99–576, Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3248; Pub. L. 102–12, Mar. 18, 1991, 105 Stat. 34; Pub. L. 102–25, Apr. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 75; Pub. L. 102–568, Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4320. This chapter is shown here, however, as having been added by Pub. L. 103–353, § 2(a), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3150, without reference to those intervening amendments because of the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 103–353.

A prior chapter 43 “Mustering-Out Payments”, Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1222, 1223, consisted of sections 2101 to 2105, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 89–50, § 1(a), June 24, 1965, 79 Stat. 173.

Amendments

2008⁠—Pub. L. 110–389, title III, §§ 311(f)(2), 313(b), Oct. 10, 2008, 122 Stat. 4164, 4167, added items 4327 and 4335.

2004⁠—Pub. L. 108–454, title II, § 203(b), Dec. 10, 2004, 118 Stat. 3606, added item 4334.

1998⁠—Pub. L. 105–368, title II, § 212(b)(2), Nov. 11, 1998, 112 Stat. 3331, added item 4319.