The United States Office of the Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment and Training (OASVET) was established by Secretary's Order No. 5-81 in December 1981.
The assistant secretary position was created by P.L. 96-466 in October 1980, to replace the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment position created by P.L. 94-502 in October 1976. The bipartisan
Congressional intent was to establish leadership of the department's programs for services to veterans at the policy-making level, and thereby help to ensure Congressional mandates for an effective:
*Job and job training counseling service program,
*Employment placement service program, and
*Job training placement service program for eligible veterans (carried out by the
United States Department of Labor
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).
On July 16, 2021, President
Joe Biden nominated James Rodriguez, the acting agency head and assistant secretary's principal deputy, for the position of Assistant Secretary for VET; he was confirmed by the
Senate
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and sworn into office in May 2022.
Corruption scandal
On 22 July 2011, the then assistant secretary,
Ray Jefferson
Ray Jefferson is an American government official and retired military officer who served as assistant secretary of labor for the Veterans' Employment and Training Service. He graduated from the United States Military Academy and served in the Unit ...
, was led out of the
Frances Perkins Building
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by the
FBI
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and subsequently resigned on July 25, 2011, following a contracting scandal.
See also
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Title 20 of the Code of Federal Regulations CFR Title 20 – Employees' Benefits is one of 50 titles composing the United States Code of Federal Regulations
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References
External links
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VETSin the
Federal Register
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United States Department of Labor agencies
Veterans' affairs in the United States
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