Help Veterans Return to Work Act

Help Veterans Return to Work Act - Requires full reinstatement of all appropriate employment and reemployment rights of an individual called away from employment with a small business employer due to active-duty service who subsequently returns, unless the employer can show that such employment or reemployment would impose an undue hardship on the employer.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3860 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3860

To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the responsibilities 
  of small businesses with respect to the employment and reemployment 
                          rights of veterans.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 2012

Mr. Garamendi (for himself and Mr. Rush) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the responsibilities 
  of small businesses with respect to the employment and reemployment 
                          rights of veterans.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Help Veterans Return to Work Act''.

SEC. 2. SMALL BUSINESSES AND VETERANS' EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS.

    (a) Undue Hardship for Small Businesses.--Section 4312(d) of title 
38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by inserting ``if such employer is 
        a small business concern'' before the semicolon; and
            (2) in paragraph (2)(B), by inserting ``if such employer is 
        a small business concern'' after ``on the employer''.
    (b) Small Business Concern.--Section 4303 of such title is amended 
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(17) The term `small business concern' has the meaning 
        given that term under section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 
        U.S.C. 632).''.
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