8th Circuit Reverses Decision For Employee On USERRA Reemployment Claim

Mealey's (July 8, 2021, 10:10 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — An Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on July 6 reversed a trial court’s judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) for a former employee on his reemployment claim filed under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), finding that the change in position the employee returned to following a deployment was due to a corporate reorganization and that his position would have been changed in the same manner had the employee not been deployed....