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EI-52Federal Employment Information Fact Sheets
Veterans' Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA),
5 U.S.C. 3304(f)
VEOA is a permanent competitive service appointing authority intended to open up opportunities to veterans that might otherwise be closed to them when an agency - e.g., Department of Defense, limits announcements to "status" candidates - i.e., those who are already civil service employees. VEOA requires agencies to allow preference eligibles or eligible veterans to apply when accepting applications from individuals outside its own workforce. Veterans' preference, however, does not apply to selections made under merit promotion procedures.
Who is Eligible
To be eligible for a VEOA appointment, the veteran's latest discharge must be issued under honorable conditions. Applicants must be either a preference eligible as defined by title 5 U.S.C. 2108(3), or a veteran who substantially completed 3 or more years of active service. "Active Service" under VEOA means active duty in a uniformed service and includes full-time training duty, annual training duty, full-time National Guard duty, and attendance, while in the active service, at a school designated as a service school by law or by the Secretary concerned. Current or former Federal employees meeting VEOA eligibility can apply.
When agencies recruit from outside their own workforce under merit promotion (internal) procedures, announcements must state VEOA is applicable. VEOA eligibles are not subject to geographic area of consideration limitations. The applicants must rank among the best qualified with other merit promotion eligibles in order to be considered for appointment. Individuals are given career or career conditional appointments, as appropriate.
Improved Redress
The VEOA allows a preference eligible who believes an agency has violated any of his or her rights under the veterans' preference laws or regulations, to file a formal complaint with the Department of Labor's Veterans Employment and Training Service (VETS). If VETS is unable to resolve the complaint within 60 days, the veteran may appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). The law also makes a willful violation of veterans' preference a prohibited personnel practice.
AS OF: 09/21/2009
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