California. Members of the California National Guard, or the national guard of any state, who are called to active duty must be given unpaid leave. Employers also may not discriminate against employees because of their membership in any branch of the state or federal armed services.

Regular military leave is any paid leave taken for personal reasons, including vacations, family care, errands or any other purpose. Regular leave is used on workdays and also any time the service member is leaving the vicinity of their duty station, as defined by their command, on a weekend or holiday.

“Paid Military leave” means leave granted on full pay each financial year as an annual entitlement to Reservists for the purpose of rendering certain types of ADF Reserve service.

Since then increasing numbers of Reservists have been deployed overseas in varying capacities as well as undertaking periods of full-time service in Australia to maintain capabilities within Regular units heavily committed to deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, East Timor and the Solomon Islands.

Military leave can be requested at any time but it’s up to your chain of command to approve or deny such leave. Some leave is not associated with rest and recreation, morale, or vacations–and as such your chain of command may approve it immediately depending on circumstances.

Military and NOAA members earn 2.5 days of leave for each month of service. Up to 60 days of leave can be banked (accrued) over a two year period, but your leave balance is checked on the first day of the fiscal year (October 1) and any excess leave above 60 days is forfeit.

As stated previously, an employer may not require documentation for notification prior to military duty. Further, an employer does not have a”right of refusal” for military leave of absence, so long as the employee has not exceeded the 5 years of cumulative service provided under USERRA.

You are authorized to get a cash payment for any unused leave when you separate from the military if you are retiring or separating with an honorable discharge. You are authorized 1/30 of your basic pay for each day of leave you sell back.

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USERRA establishes the cumulative length of time that an individual may be absent from work for military duty and retain reemployment rights to five years (the previous law provided four years of active duty, plus an additional year if it was for the convenience of the Government).

The term originates as a derogatory label for a soldier who would not fight but would look good in a uniform, shortened from ‘Chocolate Cream Soldier’. It appears in that form in the 1897 book Soldier of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis. A member of the Australian Army Reserve past or present; called ‘Choco’ for short.

The Government has deployed Australian Defence Force personnel to operations overseas and within Australia to protect Australia and its national interests. ADF members are actively protecting Australia’s borders and offshore maritime interests.

Water Management Act 2000 ; Community Land Management Act 2021 ; Education and Care Services National Regulations (2011 SI 653) Local Government Amendment Act 2019 ; Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment Act 2017

NSW Government Gazette notices are now lodged through the notice lodgement portal accessible from the Gazette page. You’ll also find there everything you need to get started—links to how-to videos, FAQs, notice templates and an email ready to send to a dedicated Gazette Help box.

Section 17 of the Defence Reserve Service (Protection) Act 2001 makes it unlawful for an employer to hinder or prevent an employee from rendering, or volunteering to render, defence service. Accordingly, agencies are legally obliged to release employees to undertake duties as members of the Defence Forces.

Health Service senior executive means a person employed in the NSW Health Service as a NSW Health Service senior executive. Industrial Relations Secretary has the same meaning as in section 49 of the Act. NSW Police Force senior executive means a person employed in the NSW Police Force as a NSW Police Force senior executive.