Excerpt: A pair of federal district courts have held that the statutory language and legislative history of the statute indicate clearly that employees cannot be compelled to arbitrate their USERRA claims. The Fifth Circuit has held the opposite. The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky has just sided with the Fifth Circuit, holding that an optometrist deployed to Afghanistan can be compelled to arbitrate his claims that employer demoted him because of his military service.  MORE >>