Ensuring Compliance with Digital Signature Lawfulness for Military Leave Policy in Canada

How to eSign a document: digital signature lawfulness for Military Leave Policy in Canada

[Music] let's take a look at military service leave the uniformed services employment and reemployment Rights Act known as USERRA confers numerous rights on employees who engage in military service employers of any size are prohibited from discriminating and against people who are members of apply to become members of or have obligations to serve in a uniformed military service often complying with this law simply means allowing the employee in the National Guard to attend scheduled annual drill training and treating the employee as if they had not been absent but at a time when National Guard members and reservists are regularly called upon to serve lengthy deployments to other countries employers must be aware of you Sarah's in acting requirements regarding restoration from military leave as a general rule employees are entitled to reemployment following up to five years of cumulative absence not counting periods of required training for military service an employee taking leave for military service must notify his employer the to this effect but is not required to await permission or to decide at what time whether reinstatement will be sought following the period of military service provided that an honorable discharge is received in a timely request made for reemployment an employee returning from military service must be re-employed service members have to report more or less immediately following service periods of less than 31 days and within 90 days of discharge when the service period exceeds 180 days service members who become injured or disabled during service are given up to two years to return to their job the main exceptions to reinstatement requirements are when reemployment is impossible or unreasonable the necessary training would impose undue hardship or prior employment was temporary under the escalator principle employers must attempt to place individuals returned from military service into positions including promotions that they likely would have attained absent of their service the principle applies even when managers retain significant discretion in deciding whom to promote employers must make reasonable efforts such as by providing training to permit returning servicemembers to perform their job if individuals are not qualified to perform the jobs that they would otherwise have attained reinstatement to the position held prior to military service or an equivalent position must generally occur reemployment under USERRA also means that an employee returns with the seniority he would have had if he were continuously employed and any other benefits related to length of service benefits unrelated to seniority must be maintained on the same basis as for other employees receiving comparable non-military leaves of absence [Music] you