American Veterans Anti-Discrimination Initiative

1. The anti-discrimination act:

• WILL raise aware­ness among employ­ers who are already required to com­plete monthly EEOC reports;
• WILL give vet­er­ans expe­ri­enc­ing employer/housing dis­crim­i­na­tion legal recourse to pur­sue their claim;
• WILL help level the play­ing field and acknowl­edge a vet­er­ans ser­vice by giv­ing them employ­ment pref­er­ence between two or more fully qual­i­fied candidates.

2. The anti-discrimination act:

• WILL NOT cre­ate employ­ment quo­tas (quo­tas are not legal in the United States);
• WILL NOT ‘give’ jobs or pro­mo­tions to unqual­i­fied veterans;
• WILL NOT pro­vide any form of mon­e­tary stipend (this is not a ‘wel­fare’ program);
• WILL NOT pit vets against any­one cur­rently pro­tected under the law.

Vet­er­ans not want­ing or need­ing to par­tic­i­pate do not need to self-identify or if they expe­ri­ence employment/housing dis­crim­i­na­tion (espe­cially our National guard and reserve mem­bers) they would not be legally required to file a claim against any employer;

While there are numer­ous vet­eran employ­ment assis­tace pro­grams cur­rently on the books, many of them do ‘not have any teeth’ or only ben­e­fit nar­row or spe­cific groups of vet­er­ans. The Amer­i­can Vet­eran Anti-Discrimination ini­tia­tive would pro­vide com­pre­hen­sive assis­tance to vet­er­ans of all eras; and

This ini­tia­tive SHOULD NOT be viewed any dif­fer­ently than you view your G.I. Bill/or health care ben­e­fits. Your G.I. Bill and health care ben­e­fits are avail­able to you if you chose to uti­lize them, but you are never com­pelled to take advan­tage of either ben­e­fit. And for those who claim they don’t want to take any­thing from the gov­er­ment or have the gov­ern­ment involve in their per­sonal life, where do you think the money for your G.I. Bill and health care ben­e­fits come from?

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