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RR crews to hurricane relief ?
Posted by blue streak 1 on Friday, September 30, 2022 2:04 AM

The president is activating both reservists and civilian volunteers to help in hurrican recoveries.  He  appears to be guaranteeing them their jobs when finished helping in PR, Florida, and other SE states as needed.  I can here the RRs screaming if that result even a minor loss of personnel.  You might say what a way to get revenge,

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Posted by Convicted One on Friday, September 30, 2022 9:54 AM

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  He  appears to be guaranteeing them their jobs when finished helping

Did he preface the comment with "read my lips"?  ClownClown

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Posted by Euclid on Friday, September 30, 2022 11:11 AM

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The president is activating both reservists and civilian volunteers to help in hurrican recoveries.  He  appears to be guaranteeing them their jobs when finished helping in PR, Florida, and other SE states as needed.

In what way does the President appear to be guaranteeing the volunteers their jobs back when they are finished volunteering?

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Posted by BEAUSABRE on Saturday, October 1, 2022 10:39 PM

Military reservists are protected undr the law.

"Enacted in 1994 and then updated and improved in both 1996 and 1998, the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act protects your civilian job if you are called to Active Duty. With the USERRA law, if you have to leave civilian sector work on a call to active duty then when you get home from active duty your civilian job has to be made available to you.

You are entitled to seniority that you would have built up had you been at the civilian job as well. The USERRA applies to all employers, including state and local governments, private employers, the Federal Government, and to all civilian employers in general."

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Posted by kgbw49 on Sunday, October 2, 2022 10:27 AM

Relatively minor in the grand scheme of things, but is there any word on the condition of the Seminole Gulf?

https://www.floridarail.com/

https://www.floridarail.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/SGLR%20Freight%20Lines%20Map.pdf

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Posted by wjstix on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 2:20 PM

BEAUSABRE
"Enacted in 1994 and then updated and improved in both 1996 and 1998, the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act protects your civilian job if you are called to Active Duty. With the USERRA law, if you have to leave civilian sector work on a call to active duty then when you get home from active duty your civilian job has to be made available to you.

It might seem surprising it was such a recent thing, since it seems to be common sense. There was a similar law protecting National Guard / Reserve going back to early part of the 20th century, but it was ended in the 1980s by the then-current administration, and had to be reinstituted in the 1990s.

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Posted by Electroliner 1935 on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 9:40 PM

kgbw49

Relatively minor in the grand scheme of things, but is there any word on the condition of the Seminole Gulf?

https://www.floridarail.com/

https://www.floridarail.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/SGLR%20Freight%20Lines%20Map.pdf

https://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/293577.aspx

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