Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Expansion Of Investigation Into Potential Violations Of The Uniformed Services Employment And Reemployment Rights Act

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"...The class action suit alleges that the City unlawfully calculates the pensionable earnings of NYPD officers called to active military duty by relying exclusively on their base pay rate, instead of including the overtime or night shift differential compensation they would have earned had they not been on active military duty, as required by USERRA. As a result, service members are being deprived of pension benefits they would have been reasonably likely to receive, but for their military service..." MORE ...