Servicemember reemployment
Subtitle: agencies are generally timely in processing redress complaints, but improvements needed in maintaining data and reporting : report to Congressional committees
Publisher: U.S. Govt. Accountability Office
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Rules and practice; Veterans; Employment; Employees; Reinstatement; United States; United States. Department of Labor; United States. Department of Justice; United States. Office of Special Counsel
Other titles: Agencies are generally timely in processing redress complaints, but improvements needed in maintaining data and reporting; USERRA complaint processing and reporting
Description: The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) protects the employment and reemployment rights of individuals who leave their employment to perform uniformed service. Concerned with the timeliness of USERRA complaint processing and data reliability of agency reports, Congress imposed timeliness requirements for the Department of Labor (DOL), Department of Justice (DOJ), and Office of Special Counsel (OSC) under the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 2008 (VBIA 2008) and required agencies to submit quarterly reports to Congress on the extent of their compliance with the requirements. As required by VBIA, this report assesses whether the agencies (1) met VBIA timeliness requirements for USERRA complaint processing, and (2) submitted reliable and timely quarterly reports. GAO analyzed data in each agency's USERRA database, and the extent to which those data were consistent with the quarterly reports.
Notes: Title from PDF title page (GAO, viewed Oct. 25, 2010).

"October 2010."

"GAO-11-55."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Background; title: DOL, DOJ, and OSC were generally timely in meeting VBIA deadlines, but issues remain regarding notification of rights by DOL; title: DOL's and DOJ's quarterly reports have timeliness and data quality issues; the three agencies lack uniform criteria in reporting cases; title: Conclusions.