Indiana Private Employer Veterans Preference and Ban on Refusing to Hire Veterans
Indiana makes it an unlawful employment practice to refuse to hire someone because he or she is a veteran, a Guard member or a reservist, and lets private employers adopt a written veterans preference policy for hiring, promotion and layoffs.
Also called: IC 22-9-10, IC 10-17-15, veteran status discrimination, Civil Rights Commission, veterans preference employment policy, DD 214.
Refusal to hire. IC 22-9-10-9: "It is an unlawful employment practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran" by refusing to employ an applicant because the applicant is a veteran, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component. The definition of veteran in IC 22-9-10-8 has no discharge test. The chapter covers hiring; other state and federal law, including USERRA, protects those already employed. IC 22-9-10-14 says it does not limit any veterans preference elsewhere in the code. The Indiana Civil Rights Commission takes complaints.
Voluntary preference. IC 10-17-15: a private employer may have a veterans preference employment policy, which must be "in writing and applied uniformly" to hiring, promotion or retention in a reduction in force, and may require a DD 214. A veteran for this chapter served in the armed forces, their reserves or the Indiana Army or Air National Guard and was released "under conditions other than dishonorable". The Department of Veterans Affairs is to publicize the program.
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