US Supreme Court resolves pay fight in favor of federal workers who also are military reservists.

The U.S. Supreme Court said Wednesday that federal employees who also are in the military reserve must be paid the equivalent of their civilian salaries when called to active duty.

The 5-4 decision could affect hundreds of thousands of people, insuring that they don’t suffer financially when they temporarily leave one form of government service for another. . .

In a dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas pointed out that the country has been under one national emergency or another for decades and the majority’s finding will create wider access to differential pay than Congress intended. Thomas wrote that he would have instead sent the case back to a lower court. He was joined by Justices Samuel Alito, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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