Firm Must pay Vet $445G Over Firing

[unhappycamper]

Firm Must pay Vet $445G Over Firing
November 27, 2009
The Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts

BOSTON -- A federal jury has awarded an Iraq war veteran $445,000 in a military discrimination suit against a Tyngsboro, Mass., fire-safety company.

A jury in Boston's U.S. District Court found that Stephen Fryer, a member of the Massachusetts Army National Guard, was discriminated against by the owners of A.S.A.P. Fire and Safety Corp. Inc. of 90 Progress Ave., Tyngsboro.

Fryer worked for the company when he was deployed to Iraq in February 2007. After he returned from Iraq in May 2008, the company's owners, Joseph Sheedy and Brian Cote, did not reinstate Fryer in his previous job, as is required by the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, according to court documents.

USERRA is a federal law that protects the employment rights of military personnel.

Fryer, 43, of Jaffrey, N.H., was rehired by the company in July 2008 to a lower position in the company. After requesting reinstatement to the job he held before being deployed to Iraq, Fryer was fired.


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[hobbit709]

1. Good! nt.

[baldguy]

2. Good!

[wilt the stilt]

3. probably heavy duty GOP

types. SUPPORT THE TROOPS.

[imdjh]

4. I've always wondered how that is supposed to work.

What do you do with the guy you hired to fill in for the guy who is off to war?

And was this law intended to cover a volunteer army situation?