Veterans' Employment and Training Service

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Veterans' Employment and Training Service
Type: Executive Departments (Sub-organization)
Parent organization: Department of Labor
Top organization: Department of Labor
Employees: 200
Executive: Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment and Training
Budget: $270M (FY 2024)
Address: 200 Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC 20210, USA
Website: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/vets/
Creation Legislation: Public Law 94-502, Veterans' Employment Program (1976)
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Mission
The Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS) prepares America's veterans, transitioning service members, and their spouses for meaningful careers by providing employment resources, expertise, and protecting their employment rights. It aims to ensure veterans have access to high-quality careers and training opportunities.
Services

Employment workshops; Job training grants; USERRA (Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act) enforcement; Transition assistance; Apprenticeship programs

Regulations

Administers USERRA; Oversees federal grants for veterans' employment services

Veterans' Employment and Training Service
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Agency Overview
Formed December 1981
Jurisdiction Federal government of the United States
Headquarters Washington, D.C.
Employees 233 (180 field staff, 53 headquarters)
Agency Executive James Rodriguez, Assistant Secretary
Website
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The United States Office of the Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment and Training (OASVET) was established by Secretary's Order No. 5-81 in December 1981.[1]

The assistant secretary position was created by P.L. 96-466 in October 1980, to replace the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment position created by P.L. 94-502 in October 1976. The bipartisan Congressional intent was to establish leadership of the department's programs for services to veterans at the policy-making level, and thereby help to ensure Congressional mandates for an effective:

  • Job and job training counseling service program,
  • Employment placement service program, and
  • Job training placement service program for eligible veterans (carried out by the United States Department of Labor).

On July 16, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated James Rodriguez, the acting agency head and assistant secretary's principal deputy, for the position of Assistant Secretary for VET; he was confirmed by the Senate and sworn into office in May 2022.[2]

Corruption scandal

On 22 July 2011, the then assistant secretary, Ray Jefferson, was led out of the Frances Perkins Building by the FBI and subsequently resigned on July 25, 2011, following a contracting scandal.[3][4][5][6]

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