Hiram Colon v. County of Shawnee, State of Kansas

JOHN P. MOORE, Circuit Judge.

This case presents the question of whether the reemployment rights conferred upon veterans by the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1984, 38 U.S.C. §§ 2021-2026 (the Act), require an employer to offer reemployment to a veteran who had been laid off, but had a limited eligibility for reemployment when he entered active military service. We hold the Act requires that upon proper application for reemployment, a veteran be given the precise employment status the veteran had obtained on the date he or she commenced active duty. We further hold that…