Michigan Veteran Resource Poster in Every Workplace

Since April 2025 every Michigan employer with one or more full-time employees must post a veterans resource notice listing nine specific items, including the crisis line. The state supplies the poster free.

Also called: 35.1271, 35.1275, veteran's employee resource notification act, poster, crisis line, conspicuous place, 2024 PA 197.

For: Veteran or service member.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

MichiganState

The veteran's employee resource notification act, 2024 PA 197, took effect on April 2, 2025 and reaches further than almost any other provision in this file, because it binds every employer rather than every public employer. Who must post. An employer means any person or entity that employs one or more full-time employees. There is no small business exemption, no minimum number of veteran employees, and no requirement that the employer know it has any. Where. At the employer's place of business, in a conspicuous place accessible to the employer's employees. What the poster must contain. Nine items are listed and the list is a minimum rather than a maximum: the telephone number and website for the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs; mental health and substance abuse services; education, workforce or job training resources; tax benefits; how to obtain a veteran designation on a driver licence under MCL 257.310 or on a state personal identification card under MCL 28.292; eligibility for unemployment benefits under the Michigan Employment Security Act or federal law; legal services; the telephone number and website for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs; and the telephone number for the VA veterans crisis line. Who makes it. The Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, working with the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, must create the poster and make it available to employers free of charge, and both departments must make it available in a downloadable format on their websites. An employer complies by printing the state's poster; it does not have to draft anything. What this is really for. The act is aimed at the veteran who does not identify as one and has never contacted a veterans organisation. Michigan's own estimates have long held that a large share of the state's veterans are not enrolled with VA at all. Putting the crisis line number on a breakroom wall reaches a person whom every application-based program in this catalog misses. The act contains no penalty provision and names no enforcement agency, which is worth knowing in both directions: an employer is unlikely to be fined for not posting, and a veteran has no complaint route if their employer does not. The driver licence item is not incidental. Section 257.310 lets the Secretary of State pass information from a veteran designation applicant to the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and to county veterans service agencies for benefits eligibility referral, so asking for the designation is itself a way into the system the poster is advertising.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Michigan Veteran Resource Poster in Every Workplace
Gate	Rule
Every employer with one or more full-time employees	An employer means any person or entity that employs one or more full-time employees. There is no size threshold and no requirement that the employer have veteran employees.
A conspicuous place accessible to employees	The poster must be displayed at the employer’s place of business, in a conspicuous place accessible to the employer’s employees.
Nine required items, as a minimum	The poster must include, but is not limited to, the state and federal veterans department contacts, the veterans crisis line, mental health and substance abuse services, education and job training resources, tax benefits, the driver licence and state ID veteran designation, unemployment benefit eligibility, and legal services.
The state supplies it free	The Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity and the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs must create the poster, make it available free of charge, and publish it in a downloadable format.
No penalty and no named enforcer	The act sets out the duty without a penalty provision or an enforcement agency.

Sources

Michigan Compiled Laws § 35.1275Official
Michigan Compiled Laws § 35.1273Official

Legislation

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2024 PA 197 (House Bill 5736) Required every Michigan employer to post a veterans resource notice

Catalog reconciledEnactedProgram created

2023-2024 Regular SessionTakes effect 2025-04-02

Introduced Done, 2024-05-21, step 1 of 6
In committee Done, 2024-05-21, step 2 of 6
Passed one chamber Done, 2024-06-27, step 3 of 6
Passed both chambers Done, 2024-12-11, step 4 of 6
Signed by the governor Done, 2025-01-16, step 5 of 6
In effect Done, 2025-04-02, step 6 of 6

Expands benefits Requires every employer to post a notice of the resources available to veterans.

Created the veteran’s employee resource notification act, MCL 35.1271 to 35.1275, effective April 2, 2025. Every employer with one or more full-time employees must display, in a conspicuous place accessible to employees, a poster listing at least nine items: the state and federal veterans department contacts, the veterans crisis line telephone number, mental health and substance abuse services, education and job training resources, tax benefits, how to obtain the veteran designation on a driver licence or state identification card, unemployment benefit eligibility, and legal services. The Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity must create the poster with the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and supply it free. The act carries no penalty and names no enforcement agency.

Sponsor

Touches MCL § 35.1271 · MCL § 35.1273 · MCL § 35.1275

Also touches

Michigan Veteran Designation on a Driver License

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