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Committee reviews draft to create hiring preference for military spouses in state jobs
Summary
The committee reviewed draft language that would add active-duty military spouses to existing state hiring preferences and award five extra points on competitive exams where used, while noting collective-bargaining rules still take precedence and that competitive exams are primarily used for sworn law enforcement roles.
The Government Operations & Military Affairs committee reviewed draft statutory language to give spouses of personnel currently serving in the U.S. armed forces a hiring preference for state employment.
Counsel Sophie Soudatny, representing the Office of Legislative Council, told the committee the proposal has two parts: after requirements of any applicable collective-bargaining agreement and after compliance with an existing subsection referenced in the draft, the state would make a “diligent effort to recruit, interview, and hire” from a list of preferences that currently includes veterans and…
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