Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA)
Complaint File
None.
Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS') State Offices,
Regional Offices, and National Office.
Complainants who are veterans, enlistees, examinees, reservists or
members of the National Guard of the U.S. Armed Forces on active or reserve
service or training duty, and other complainants.
The system of records contains data related to civil investigations
which include: initial investigative complaint form, background, investigators'
fact finding records, witness statements, supporting documents provided by
claimants and employers, other information relevant to a determination of
veterans reemployment rights.
38 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.
Records are maintained for enforcement of federal laws pertaining to
rights of veterans, reservists and members of the National Guard upon their
return to pre-military civilian employment following periods of active and
inactive military duty and related to non-discrimination based on such service
or periods of duty.
In addition to those universal routine uses listed in the General
Prefatory Statement, relevant records and information may be disclosed to the
employer against whom a complaint has been made so that the complaint can
proceed to a resolution. Disclosure may also be made when relevant and
necessary to the Department of Veterans Affairs, to the Department of Defense,
to the Department of Justice, and to the Office of Special Counsel when
complaints have proceeded to an advanced stage.
Electronic and manual records.
By name of complainant or name of employer.
Locked room or locked cabinets, and passwords for electronic system.
Cutoff and removal from active file in fiscal year when litigation is
completed, transfer to Federal Records Center five (5) years after cutoff.
Destroy when ten (10) years old.
Chief of Investigations and Compliance, United States Department of
Labor, Veterans' Employment and Training Service, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20210.
Inquiries should be directed to the system manager noted at the address
listed above.
A request for access shall be addressed to the systems manager at the
address listed above. Individuals must furnish the following information for
their records to be located and identified:
a. Name.
b. Approximate date of separation.
A petition for amendment should be addressed to the System Manager.
Veterans, Reserve and National Guard members, employees, employers,
former employees, Departments of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs,
physicians, union officers and maybe the public.
In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(2), investigatory material in this
system of records compiled for law enforcement purposes is exempt from
subsections (c)(3); (d); (e)(1); (e)(4)(G), (H), and (I); and (f) of 5 U.S.C.
552a, provided however, that if any individual is denied any right, privilege,
or benefit that he or she would otherwise be entitled to by Federal law, or for
which he or she would otherwise be eligible, as a result of the maintenance of
these records, such material shall be provided to the individual, except to the
extent that the disclosure of such material would reveal the identity of a
source who furnished information to the Government under an express promise
that the identity of the source would be held in confidence, or prior to
January 1, 1975, under an implied promise that the identity of the source would
be held in confidence.
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