Forrest T. Akers v. General Motors Corporation

KILEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

The United States Attorney and Solicitor of Labor filed suit in the district court under § 9 of the Military Selective Service and Training Act of 1967 (Act),1 on behalf of plaintiffs, three returning veterans. The suit sought to compel plaintiffs’ employer, General Motors Corporation (GM), to award them credit units allegedly accrued during their military service under GM’s Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Plan (SUB). Plaintiffs claimed that they were entitled to include those credit units in determining eligibility for and duration of SUB benefits due them…