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There's a rumor on some of the gun forums that sounds fishy about a returning service member not getting their job back at SOG. Knowing Spencer as possibly the most honorable person in the knife manufactuing world I find it difficult to accept the story.

It would be good if SOG could address this question and try to conduct a little damage control since there are people "boycotting" the company.
 
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1105/111105lb.htm
After completing an investigation, the Labor Department's Veterans' Employment and Training Service referred the Coast Guard reservist's complaint to the Justice Department.
The knife company, in a consent decree that must be approved by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, agreed to compensate the plaintiff an unpublished sum.
"We have a duty to our men and women in the military to enforce vigorously their legal right to be free of employment discrimination on the basis of their military service," said Bradley Schlozman, acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil rights division. "We are very pleased to see a positive resolution in this case."
Schlozman said the knife company cooperated with the investigation and offered the settlement, but denied any wrongdoing.
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It would be nice to get the details, but with a consent decree both SOG and the former employee are probably blocked from discussing any details.
 
well i understand why you would kick up a fuss (the principle of the matter) but until you know the full story i`wouldn`t go pointing the finger
 
sirgalant,

I'm not kicking up a fuss nor pointing any fingers. It's already being done outside of BF.

This story is on a couple of gun boards and there are folks on those boards who are telling it as if SOG was some horrible company that done some poor deployed soldier who had been kicking-in-doors-for-freedom wrong (The guy was reserve USCG and got reactivated within a week of being hired at SOG and deployed to Kuwai/Iraq within a month. He came back in a few months and they gave him another job. That didn't take and the fired him. He filed and they settled.). We know that's not the case, but no one is able to defend them if there isn't more information to counter what's being said. I offered up a defense at defensivecarry.com where one guy claims to have some inside information and is pretty harsh about SOG.

I know that's there's more to support SOG than a couple of court documents. The fact that the information is pretty thin doesn't stop people demonizing them.

See post #42
http://www.defensivecarry.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=24461&page=5
 
As a reservist who went through similar actions with my employer, I found this telling:

He came back in a few months and they gave him another job.
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You are supposed to go back to the same job or same position of seniority. The sticking point is whether the new job had the same level of seniority. As a former Guard/Reserve member, I feel for those who are deployed or on orders in this time. However, what is a smaller business to do when they need to fill the position ASAP? At some point, there has to be give and take on this problem. With so many jobs being exported, be happy to have the job. I looked at my difficulties with my employer as an opportunity to advance to other areas when it was readily apparent they would make life difficult for me while I remained a Guard member.
 
I can understand how service members might take a deep interest, however there are two sides to every story.
 
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