Florida Veteran Preference
Eligibility & Rules
Terminology
The Hiring Process
Filing a Complaint
100

This Required Form is essential to prove honorable separation and claim preference.

What is a DD214 Form?

100

The acronym for USERRA stands for this.

What is "Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act"?

100

A person who served in the active military and was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable.

What is a Veteran?

100

A veteran who served during the Gulf War from August 2, 1990 through January 2, 1992 and has no disabilities due to service is given this type of preference.

What is 5-Point Preference (TP)?

100

This Form shows the dates or total amount of active duty and type of discharge or separation.

What is a DD Form 214, Certificate of Discharge or Separation from Active Duty?

200

Number of points added to the passing score of a veteran with a service connected disability.

What is 20 Points?

200

USERRA establishes this cumulative length of time that an individual may be absent from work for military duty and retain reemployment rights.

What is a total of five years?

200

An objection filed against a preference eligible that if sustained, would result in the selection of a non-preference eligible.

What is a Pass-over request?

200

Veterans get this advantage over nonveterans in a reduction in force if they meet the requirements.

What is Veterans Preference in RIF?

200

This guide is used to validate veterans preference and veterans preference requirements.

What is the Vet Guide?

300

The length of a probationary period for newly hired veterans in the competitive service.

What is a one-year probationary period?

300

Information on USERRA can be found at this Department's website.

What is the US Department of Labor or www.dol.gov?

300

Non-selection of a veteran-preference eligible on a certificate (referral list) to appoint a lower-ranking non-veteran (provided the agency first submits reasons that OPM finds sufficient).

What is a Pass-over of a veteran?

300

0-Points are given for this type of preference, but allows entitled person to be listed ahead of non-preference eligibles with the same score or ahead of non-preference eligibles in the same quality category on a certificate.

What is Sole Survivorship Preference (SSP)?

300

Type of discharge that is usually used for entry-level separations, or separations from the military in the first 180 days of service and is not considered Honorable or General.

What is "Uncharacterized" discharge?

400

Preference in Florida applies to these types of jobs, which include state, county, and municipal positions.

What is government(public) employment?

400

For service of 180 days or more, an application for reemployment must be submitted to the employer NLT how many days after completion of military service.

What is NLT 90 days after completion of a person's military service?

400

Alternative ranking and selection procedure authorized under the Chief Human Capital Offiers Act of 2002 and is part of the competitive examining process.

What is Category Rating?

400

A veteran who served at any time and who has a compensable service-connected disability rating of at least 10 percent but less than 30 percent.

What is 10-Point Compensable Disability Preference (CP)

400

Any written document from the armed forces that certified the service member is expected to be discharged or released from active duty service in the armed forces under honorable conditions within 120 days after submission of document.

What is "Certification" or "Certification Letter"?

500

The Florida statue section that mandates veteran preference in employment.

What is Chapter 295?

500

This is the time limit for filing a USERRA appeal with the Board

What is "there is no time limit" for filing a USERRA appeal with the board?

500

This principle requires that each returning service member be reemployed in the position the person would have occupied with reasonable certainty if the person had remained continuously employed, with full seniority.  

What is "Escalator" position or principle?

500

This "Act" became effective January 7, 2016 and expands preference eligibility from the mother of a deceased/disabled vet unable to use his/her preference to the parent of that service member.

What is the Gold Star Father's Act of 2015 (Derived Veterans' Preference for Parents)?

500

This "Act" requires Federal agencies to treat certain active duty service members as preference eligibles for purposes of an appointment in the competitive or excepted service, even though the service members are not discharged/released from active duty.

What is the Veterans Opportunity to Work (VOW) to Hire Heroes Act of 2011?

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