Reading Room Document

Entitlement to Reservist Differential Pay Under Pre-Amendment Version of 5 U.S.C. § 5538

Under the pre-amendment version of 5 U.S.C. § 5538, covered employees may receive reservist differential pay not only for pay periods that occur when they are serving on active duty, but also for those pay periods that fall within the additional period in which they have re-employment rights following the completion of that duty. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/olc/file/2010-06-28-reservist-diff-pay/download.

June 28, 2010