§ 38A:22-1 — Veterans' preference, private employment, voluntary commitments.

38A:22-1. a. The department shall organize and administer a program of voluntary commitments by employers throughout the State to participate in a plan of veterans' preference in private employment and reemployment. b. The plan of veterans' preference in private employment shall provide for the fixing of a quota of veterans by the commissioner for all participating employers, but may not require any employed worker to be discharged. The plan shall also provide for the classification of disabled veterans in occupations for which they would not be handicapped and for first preference in such occupations for such disabled veterans. c. In the organization and administration of the employment quota preference plan, the commissioner, through appropriate federal, State, and local agencies, shall: Enroll employers who voluntarily commit themselves to the plan and certify the right of such employers to approved forms of public recognition; Register veterans desiring employment, according to their occupational experience and capacities; Register labor unions which are willing to participate through appropriate adjustment of their membership and other requirements and certify the right of such unions to approved forms of public recognition; Receive requests for workers from all participating employers; and Either refer qualified veterans, with preference to the disabled, in response to such requisitions or certify that veterans are not available. L.2025, c.139, s.43.