Military Recruitment

Military Benefits

Along with Sears Holdings’s comprehensive benefit program, military servicemen and women also have additional benefits. The most notable is our Military Pay Differential and Benefits Continuation program. In September 2004, the company extended its military pay differential (fills the gap between military pay and employer pay) and benefits continuation to 60 months for eligible employees called to duty in the Reserves or National Guard. Serving your country shouldn’t come with a pay cut, and we’ll make sure it doesn’t.

Military Pay Differential and Benefits Continuation

In September 2004, the company extended its military pay differential (fills the gap between military pay and employer pay) and benefits continuation to 60 months for eligible employees called to duty in the Reserves or National Guard.

Previously, policy provided 36 months of coverage.

While deployed, eligible employees can:

Continue participating in Sears Holdings's life insurance, medical and dental programs.
Receive annual merit pay increases, incentive pay.

Sears Holdings holds a comparable position for deployed employees for up to five years.
The company has encouraged and supported employees serving in the armed forces for decades.

Records indicate that Sears provided support to employees serving in the military in 1916.
Sears' pay differential was first instituted in 1990 for Operation Desert Shield-Storm.

Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) Statement of Support

Sears signed a Five Star Statement of Support of the ESGR, publicly demonstrating support for employees who serve in the National Guard and Reserve.
The five star level of support signifies that Sears:

Reviewed its human resources policies to ensure compliance with the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-Employment Rights Acts Law.
Promotes training for managers and supervisors to effectively manage associates who serve in the Guard and Reserve.
Adopted polices and programs that are "Above and Beyond" what is required by the USERRA Law.
Serves as an advocate for associate service in the National Guard and Reserve and helps to promote the mission of ESGR.