Comments on: New Group To Combat Veterans Unemployment http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2009/11/05/new-group-to-combat-veterans-unemployment/ Updated information on Veteran Benefits, featured Military Bloggers, the You Served Podcast and various other news and information relevant to Veterans. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:54:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: JUSJUMP http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2009/11/05/new-group-to-combat-veterans-unemployment/comment-page-1/#comment-282636 JUSJUMP Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:29:03 +0000 http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/?p=3492#comment-282636 I am thankful that organizations such as this are being created to assist our veterans that now find themselves facing another challenge; that of finding a adequate and decent job to provide for their families and themselves. I am a veteran of one deployment to Iraq. But there are a number of veteran citizen-soldiers from my State’s National Guard that have served twice in Operation Iraqi Freedom in the past five years. That equates to being mobilized and deployed for half of the past five years. Many of these veterans are now unemployed as a consequence to being called up to serve in Iraq twice in the past five years. There is The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 law intended to protect civilian jobs for National Guard and Reserve personnel that are mobilized to serve their Nation. But veterans can tell you that it does not always work to protect jobs. If an employer wants to get rid of an employee, they can just make it such a dire situation that the veteran quits instead of continuing to work every day in that environment. Some of these veterans closed profitable businesses because they could not retain their clientele. Other unemployed veterans are having difficulty finding jobs because potential employers are concerned that they may be called away for duty again in the near future. As a fellow veteran, I am very pleased to see that organizations such as Call of Duty Endowment (CODE), a non-profit public benefit corporation, are being created to assist those that served in their time of need. Thank you for your service to the veterans. Paul Takata Student, Command and General Staff College ILE-CC, Fort Belvoir, Virginia “The views expressed in this blog are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.” I am thankful that organizations such as this are being created to assist our veterans that now find themselves facing another challenge; that of finding a adequate and decent job to provide for their families and themselves. I am a veteran of one deployment to Iraq. But there are a number of veteran citizen-soldiers from my State’s National Guard that have served twice in Operation Iraqi Freedom in the past five years. That equates to being mobilized and deployed for half of the past five years. Many of these veterans are now unemployed as a consequence to being called up to serve in Iraq twice in the past five years. There is The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 law intended to protect civilian jobs for National Guard and Reserve personnel that are mobilized to serve their Nation. But veterans can tell you that it does not always work to protect jobs. If an employer wants to get rid of an employee, they can just make it such a dire situation that the veteran quits instead of continuing to work every day in that environment. Some of these veterans closed profitable businesses because they could not retain their clientele. Other unemployed veterans are having difficulty finding jobs because potential employers are concerned that they may be called away for duty again in the near future. As a fellow veteran, I am very pleased to see that organizations such as Call of Duty Endowment (CODE), a non-profit public benefit corporation, are being created to assist those that served in their time of need. Thank you for your service to the veterans.

Paul Takata
Student, Command and General Staff College ILE-CC, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

“The views expressed in this blog are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.”

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