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A bipartisan radical of lawmakers connected Capitol Hill volition present a measure connected Wednesday to assistance Americans with carnal issues disqualifying them from subject work to find civilian jobs successful the equipped forces and defence industry.
The Defense Workforce Integration Act is sponsored by Republicans and Democrats successful both chambers of Congress.
The proposal, which seeks to enactment the thousands of Americans with carnal issues that disqualify them from service, would people workforce shortages successful captious areas, including manufacturing, cybersecurity and defence logistics.
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The Defense Workforce Integration Act is sponsored by Republicans and Democrats successful some chambers of Congress. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
"Oftentimes, the U.S. Department of Defense volition put important clip and resources into subject recruits' grooming – lone for those recruits to beryllium taken retired of information for aesculapian reasons, galore of which bash not prohibit them from moving to support our federation safe," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., 1 writer of the bill.
Key provisions of the authorities see directing the Department of Defense to supply accusation astir civilian employment opportunities to radical who were medically disqualified from work during archetypal evaluations.
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The connection would people workforce shortages successful captious areas, including manufacturing, cybersecurity and defence logistics. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The measure besides aims to enactment work members disqualified aboriginal successful their careers, expanding connected existing Air Force champion practices by establishing Army and Navy unit absorption programs. These programs would facilitate recommendations to civilian hiring authorities successful the Department of Defense, which improves entree to the hiring process without guaranteeing jobs.
"Medical issues mightiness forestall immoderate patriotic Americans from progressive subject service, but it doesn't person to forestall them from uncovering different ways to service our country," said Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., a co-sponsor of the measure successful the Upper Chamber.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is 1 of the authors of the bill. (Getty Images)
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The lawmakers privation to crook a imaginable nonaccomplishment of endowment into an accidental by allowing the Department of Defense to clasp radical successful whom they person already invested resources.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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