Court Opinion

ID: 9452866
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:54:51.327248+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:23.710523
License: Public Domain

ORDER ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
PER CURIAM.
In a petition for rehearing, appellees contend that our decision is contrary to the law as announced in Accardi v. The Pennsylvania R. R. Co., 383 U.S. 225, 86 S.Ct. 768, 15 L.Ed.2d 717 (1966). We perceive no conflict.
What the Court said in Accardi regarding the policy of the Act was in the context of claims under Sec. 9(b) (B); the so-called “seniority” provision. It is of course well settled that a veteran’s seniority is not impaired by reason of his military service, but to the contrary “automatically accrues” despite such service. Accordingly, he is “treated as though he had been continuously *322employed during the period spent in the armed forces.” Accardi, p. 228, 86 S.Ct. p. 771. The Court did not have before it a “fringe benefit” type of claim such as those involved in this case and neither said nor intimated that such claims should be classified as Sec. 9(b) type claims or treated like them.
The petition for rehearing is denied.