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OmahaBlueDog

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Wed Nov 27, 2013, 11:22 AM Nov 2013

Read this then ask yourself if you need to do any shopping at Best Buy this holiday season

In September of 2012, Louisiana Army National Guard Spc. Sherman Crandle left for a one-year deployment in Afghanistan. Before embarking to the Middle East quagmire, he had been employed with the Best Buy in Covington, Louisiana for 5 days, and was told that when he got back, he’d have a job waiting for him.

As he should have, since it is the law. U.S. law states that returning service members are to be re-hired at their previous job before performing military duty.

But Best Buy would not hire Crandle back initially. Crandle came back to the U.S. this past September and tried to go back to his old job.

“I called Best Buy checking if I still had my job,” said Crandle, “At one point, they told me no. The only way you was gonna get your job back was if we needed you.”




More at: http://progressivepopulist.org/2013/11/26/despicable-treatment-employer-national-guard-member-volunteered-deployment-afghanistan-video/
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Read this then ask yourself if you need to do any shopping at Best Buy this holiday season (Original Post) OmahaBlueDog Nov 2013 OP
I would imagine... Agschmid Nov 2013 #1
The Kissinger mindset. Scuba Nov 2013 #2

Agschmid

(28,749 posts)
1. I would imagine...
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 11:27 AM
Nov 2013

Rather than a "leave" they terminated him. It's likely they did it wrong, he should get the job back but he should make sure in the future it's considered a leave rather than a termination only to protect himself.

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