Q1: How is military service defined under USERRA?
A1: For purposes of this policy, the Laboratory uses the definition of "service in the uniformed services" found in the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA), which currently states that this term "means the performance of duties on a voluntary or involuntary basis in a uniformed service under competent authority and includes active duty, active duty for training, initial active duty for training, and inactive duty training, full-time National Guard duty, a period for which a person is absent from a position of employment for the purpose of an examination to determine the fitness of the person to do any such duty, and the period for which a person is absent from employment for the purpose of performing funeral honors duty." USERRA currently defines “uniformed services" as "the Armed Forces, the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard when engaged in active duty for training, inactive duty training, or full-time National Guard duty, the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service, and any other category of persons designated by the President in time of war or national emergency."