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Veterans, speuon. °"^' ^^ "^

38 USC 20^0f'

PUBLIC LAW 93-203-DEC. 28, 1973

[87 STAT.

segments of the population to be served, including data indicating the number of potential eligible participants and their income and employment status; (3) assurances that only persons residing within the areas of substantial unemployment qualifying for assistance will be hired to fill jobs created under this title, and that the public services provided by such jobs shall, to the extent feasible, be designed to benefit the residents of such areas; (4) assurances that special consideration will be given to the filling of jobs which provide sufficient prospects for advancement or suitable continued employment by providing complementary training and manpower services designed to (A) promote the advancement of participants to employment or training opportunities suitable to the individuals involved, whether in the public or private sector of the economy, (B) provide participants with skills for which there is an anticipated high demand, or (C) provide participants with self-development skills, but nothing contained in this paragraph shall be construed to preclude persons or programs for whom the foregoing goals are not feasible or appropriate; ^5^ assurauces (A) that special consideration in filling transitional public service jobs will be given to unemployed persons who served in the Armed Forces in Indochina or Korea on or after August 5, 1964, in accordance with criteria established by the Secretary (and who have received other than dishonorable discharges), and a description of the specific steps to be undertaken during such fiscal year to provide such special consideration, and of the types of jobs to be made available to such veterans, with special emphasis on the development of jobs which will utilize, to the maximum extent feasible, the skills which such veterans ac<iuired in connection with their military training and service, and (B) that the applicant shall (i) make special efforts to acquaint such veterans with the program and the public service jobs available to veterans under this Act, and (ii) coordinate efforts in behalf of such veterans with those activities authorized ^y chapter 41 of title 38, United States Code (relating to Job Coimseling and Employment Services for Veterans), or carried out by other public or private organizations or agencies; (6) assurances that, to the extent feasible, public service jobs shall be provided in occupational fields which are most likely to expand within the public or private sector as the unemployment rate recedes; (7) assurances that special consideration in filling transitional public service jobs will be given to unemployed persons who are the most severely disadvantaged in terms of the length of time they have been unemployed and their prospects for finding employment without assistance under this title, but such special consideration shall not authorize the hiring of any person when any other peison is on lay-off from the same or any substantially equivalent job; (8) assurances that no funds received under this title will be used to hire any person to fill a job opening created by the action of an employer in laying oft' or terminating the employment of any ivgular employee not supported under this title in anticipation of filling the vacancy so created by hiring an employee to be supported under this title; (9) assurances that due consideration be given to persons who have participated in manpower training programs for whom employment opportunities would not be otherwise immediately available;

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