Veterans Employment and Readjustment Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Veterans' Employment and Readjustment Act - Provides additional readjustment assistance to all veterans by providing improved job counseling, training, and placement services. Provides that any contract entered into by any department or agency for the purchase of goods or services for the Federal Government shall contain a provision requiring that in employing persons to carry out such contract the party contracting with the United States shall give a preference to disabled veterans and to veterans of the Vietnam era. Provides that the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall furnish readjustment medical counseling and appropriate followup care and treatment to any person who served in the active military, naval or air service during the Vietnam era and was discharged or released therefrom with other than a dishonorable discharge and who requests such counseling in order to assist such veteran in readjusting to civilian life following his discharge or release from the Armed Forces. Provides that the Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor and the Civil Service Commission, shall establish an affirmative action plan providing for the preferential employment of disa…