Once you have completed your service obligation, there is a time limit by which you must report back to your employer. The time limit is generally based upon the duration of your military service.   Service of 1 to 30 days, or reporting back from a fitness-for-service examination: You must report to your employer by the beginning of the first regularly scheduled work period that begins on the next calendar day following completion of service, after allowance for safe travel home from the military duty location and an 8-hour rest period. For example, an employer cannot require a service member who returns home at 10:00 p.m. to report to work at 12:30 a.m. that night. But the employer can require the employee to report for the 6:00 a.m. shift the next morning. If, due to no fault of your own, timely reporting back to work would be impossible or unreasonable, you must report back to work as soon as possible. Service of 31 to 180 days: You must submit an application for reemployment no later than 14 days after you complete your military service. If it is impossible or unreasonable through no fault of your own for you to submit a timely application, you must submit an application as soon as possible. Service of 181 or more days: You must submit an application for reemployment no later than 90 days after after you complete your military service. Disability incurred or aggravated. The reporting or application deadlines are extended for up to two years for persons who are hospitalized or convalescing because of a disability incurred or aggravated during the period of military service. The two-year period will be extended by the minimum time required to accommodate a circumstance beyond an individual's control that would make reporting within the two-year period impossible or unreasonable.