Rehiring of Kentucky Public Employees After Military Service

Kentucky state and local government employers

Reinstatement to your former position or an equivalent one

If you leave a Kentucky public employee position to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces and receive an honorable discharge, you must be rehired to your former position or one of equal seniority, status, pay and other rights and benefits. You have six months to return to your civilian job after a discharge during a time of war or a national or state emergency, and 90 days in peacetime or after hospitalization or treatment you received following discharge.

Check eligibility

How to apply

Contact your former agency’s human resources office within the return window that applies to you and give them your discharge paperwork.

What you'll need

Your DD214 or other discharge paperwork showing an honorable discharge, and records of any post-discharge hospitalization or treatment.

Eligibility

You were a Kentucky public employee
You left your position to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces, voluntarily or involuntarily
You received an honorable discharge
You apply to return within six months of discharge during a war or a national or state emergency, or within 90 days in peacetime or after post-discharge hospitalization or treatment

Source

Official source

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