Affirmattive action

Origin

The phrase "affirmative action " was coined by President John F . Kennedy in 1961 when he issued Executive initiating the President 's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity . In 1965 , President Lyndon B Johnson issued an requiring federal contractors to take "affirmative action " to increase the number of minorities that they employed (Fullwinder , 2005 . Thus affirmative action was born However , when the two presidents instituted the affirmative action , they did not think it would one day become a controversial subject . According to the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy the term affirmative action means

positive steps to increase the representation of women and other minorities in the areas of employment , education , and business from which they have been historically excluded . The motive for affirmative action has been the desire to redress the effects of past and current discrimination that is seen to be unfair and thus to make the particular institution to be more representative of the population . Where the step involves preferential selection on the basis of gender , race , or ethnicity intense controversy has resulted

The disable veterans affirmative action plan (DVAAP

The organization has defined a veteran as somebody who served in the active military , naval or air science and who have been discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable ones (Fullwinder ,2005 . A disabled veteran is one who is entitled to compensation under laws administered by the veterans association or a person who was discharged or released from an active duty due to a service connected disability . Section 501 of the rehabilitation act of 1973 (public law ) as amended prohibits federal executive branch agencies from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities and require each agency to develop and implement affirmative action programs plans for hiring , placement and advancement of individuals with disabilities . Federal employers should guarantee that their regulations do not unnecessarily rule out or limit persons with disabilities because of a job 's structure or due to architectural , transportation communication , procedural , or attitudinal barriers . Section 4214 (a (1 of title 38 United States code (Claire , Manuel Mazul , 1992 ) states that the United States has an obligation to assist veterans of the armed forces in readjusting to civilian life , since veterans by virtue of their service have lost opportunities to pursue education and training oriented towards civilian careers . The federal government is also continually concerned with building an effective work force and veterans contribute a major recruiting source . It is therefore the policy of United States to promote the maximum employment and job advancement opportunities within the federal government for the disabled veterans and certain other veterans from the Vietnam War who are qualified for such employment . This act placed into law the provisions of the executive that authorized the non-competitive appointment of Vietnam era veterans under Veterans ' Readjustment Appointment (VRA . The act also ensures that all veterans are considered for employment under merit system rules and requires a separate affirmative action plan for the hiring , placement , and advancement of disabled veterans . To oversee that DVAAP...