An employee requesting continuing insurance coverage may be required to pay the entire cost of the benefit, unless the service is for 30 days or less in which the employer is required to continue the insurance coverage and the employee may only be required to pay the employee share, if any. Employers are required to make any contributions to employee pensions that the employer would have made if the employee had not been absent from military service. Returning veterans must be credited with the time they spent in military service for purposes of computing pension benefits. The employee has up to three times the duration of the military service, but no longer than five years, to make such repayment. An employer can be ordered to compensate the employee for any loss of wages or benefits due to noncompliance with the laws, plus liquidated damages if a court determines that the violation was willful.
Damages can also include attorney and expert witness fees.
Such term includes any person who is a citizen, national or permanent resident alien of the United States employed in a workplace in a foreign country by an employer that is an entity incorporated or otherwise organized in the United States or that is controlled by an entity organized in the Untied States. Her practice is concentrated in Labor and Employment Law and Litigation. She received her Undergraduate Degree in 1988 from UCLA, her MBA in 1991 from New York University and her Law Degree in 1993 from Washington University.