State employees: reinstatement after military service.

The State Civil Service Act requires the reinstatement of a permanent, probationary, or exempt employee who returns from active duty military service to his or her former position, as specified. Under existing law, reinstatement to an employee's former exempt position reestablishes the employee's tenure and civil service reinstatement rights, if any, as they existed immediately prior to his or her military leave. This bill would additionally require that a reinstated civil service employee who returns from active military service and who is paid hourly to be given the same shift and number of hours worked per week as he or she worked immediately prior to going on military leave.