FYI: Brochure for Telling your empoyer you want to join the reserves

[RudyTwoShoes]

Hi,
I'm posting this in case other potential reserve applicants are looking for something to support or guide them before having "the talk" with their boss...
I went to my recruiting center and visited my reserve unit and they didn't know of any support material that I could show, and I didn't find anything in the recruiting FAQ's on this site

But I finally found the CFLC website and the brochure titled "Employers Guide to Supporting Reservists" and "Reservists Guide to Employer Support" which was exactly what I was looking for...
http://www.cflc.forces.gc.ca/pub/index-eng.asp

I think this would be good to add to any Reservist Recruiting FAQs...

 

[bullitt]

Nice find, thanks!

 

[robbiewho?]

I thought it was law that if you are a reservist your employer has to give you time off for training/deployments and have your job ready for you when you get back? I know at my last job there was a section on "by law yada yada yada" but since I wasn't a reservist I didn't pay much attention to it.

 

[George Wallace]

I thought it was law that if you are a reservist your employer has to give you time off for training/deployments and have your job ready for you when you get back? I know at my last job there was a section on "by law yada yada yada" but since I wasn't a reservist I didn't pay much attention to it.

There is such a Law in the US, but not in Canada.  Even in the US, this Law doesn't guarantee job protection in all cases.

 

[Rheostatic]

I thought it was law that if you are a reservist your employer has to give you time off for training/deployments and have your job ready for you when you get back? I know at my last job there was a section on "by law yada yada yada" but since I wasn't a reservist I didn't pay much attention to it.

What you were reading at your old job was probably company policy rather than law. The link above also includes a publication titled Reserved Jobs: Job Protection Legislation and You.

 

[robbiewho?]

Thanks for clearing that up. Like I said, I had just skimmed over the section but only caught a few key sentences.