Service Employees 32BJ North Pension Fund

North Pension Fund Summary Plan Description (SPD) >> Military Service

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The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (“USERRA”) provides reemployment rights and benefits and protection from discrimination to individuals who, either by induction or as a volunteer, have entered military service in any branch of the uniformed forces of the United States. If you satisfy the conditions for protection under USERRA, your period of military service will be treated as Hours of Service for all purposes under the Plan, including vesting, benefit accrual and eligibility.

To be entitled to reemployment rights and pension benefits under USERRA, you generally must:

1. be absent from a Covered Employment because of your military service;

2. give advance notice of your service to your employer, unless notice is prevented by military necessity or otherwise is impossible or unreasonable to give under the circumstances;

3. be absent for military service for five years or less, unless extended service is required as part of your initial period of obligation or your service is involuntarily extended, such as during a war;

4. apply for a job as required by law within the requisite time period; and

5. receive an honorable discharge or satisfactorily complete military service.

For periods of service of less than 31 days or an absence due to a fitness exam, you must report back to Covered Employment not later than the first regularly scheduled work period on the first day, after an eight hour break, and after time for travel back home. For periods of service from 31 days to 180 days, you must reapply for employment within 14 days after military service. For service over 180 days, you must reapply within 90 days after completion of service. These limits may be extended under USERRA in particular circumstances. This is only a brief summary of the rules under USERRA. You will be entitled to these rights and benefits under the Plan only if you satisfy the requirements under the law.