I am not a veteran, but I was told by someone who is that the company gets tax breaks and other benefits from keeping on the vets they hired. Is this true?
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Yea, maybe if you're a young vet. I'm a vet, with the sin of being over 50. Was let go end of Q2. Had plenty of work, and since I was being loaned out to a segment, the segment was paying my salary (or so they kept telling me). So if it wasn't lack of work, or salary, what was it? Must be just a total headcount reduction regardless of job performance, or work, or even money.
Something just wrong with that somehow. Probably replace me with a H-1B visa person, they have a ton of them instead of American national workers in NAM.
Hah. Vets are the first one to be cut.
No tax break, at least not in the US. it does count a little, sort of. Vietnam vets got some bad treatment when they applied for jobs, so now Vets are counted in government reports on "equal" employment. These numbers are treated a little like race, but since Vets are all races and genders, it does not count for much, if anything.
The only place i have ever heard of that was in "The Office" by Ricky Gervais.
I am going to ask around, i think it would be good, some of the best workers i have ever had have been ex-military, they are disciplined and get others to work also.
Clearly not, from what I've seen.