DoD to Employers: Hire Spouses or Go Away

DoD to Employers: Hire Spouses or Go Away
June 30, 2011
Military.com|by Amy Bushatz

The Pentagon launched a program on June 29 that provides incentives for top-tier companies to add servicemember spouses to their payrolls.

The DoD initiative -- dubbed the “Military Spouse Employment Partnership” -- includes 79 Fortune 500 plus companies and is intended to make hiring military spouses attractive to employers by offering them good public exposure while highlighting spouses as a potential workforce solution.

“We’re really holding their feet to the fire with this,” said Robert Gordon, the Pentagon’s chief of military community and family policy. “We want documentation -- who they’re hiring, how many they’re hiring, in terms of what kind of jobs our spouses are getting.
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Hire Spouses or Go Away