Reservist Fired After Assignment

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Reservist Fired After Assignment
August 09, 2008
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Air Force reservist Richard Wright was just two months into what he said was his "dream job" as a consultant for a firm marketing Donald Trump's get-rich techniques when he was called up and sent to Afghanistan.

For six weeks in early 2007, Wright served in Kandahar as a master sergeant with the 920th Rescue Squadron, providing intelligence for helicopter missions.

But just a week after returning home to Cooper City from the war, Wright, 41, was fired, allegedly for missing work and for contacting clients to let them know he was home.

Now Wright has sued Xylophone, a Boca Raton company doing business as the Trump Institute, saying his dismissal violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, a federal law written to protect employees from losing jobs or promotions when called up for military duty.

"Not even Donald Trump can say 'You're fired' when you are returning from military service," said Wright's lawyer, Randy Fleischer, of Davie.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/news/article/reservist-fired-after-assignment.html

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1. I love how corporations support our troops.

So corporate loving fascists should be great for our American troops. :sarcasm:


Just greed and "free" trade doing it's inevitable job of destroying America, its markets and its citizens.