OTH Discharge job opportunities?

My best friend has an OTH discharge. She was able to get a few job offers from retail companies. I know that Starbucks doesn’t discriminate based on your discharge status (That’s where she works now!). There are many other companies that are the same way, and it will usually say so on their applications. Also, try working for a small company. It’s very expensive to get a background check, and most small businesses won’t bother if you ace the interview.

Good Luck to you! :)

All of this information is accurate. There is no reason in the world why someone, who fought hard and long for our country, should be disrciminated for a backwoods, good-ole-boy severity scale devised by peope who “do no wrong”. I am recieving a OTH and have communicated with numerous corporations and have found out things that NEED to be said. As long as the job you are seeking is not FEDERAL or FEDERALLY contracted, there should be no problem with them accepting a person with an OTH or below. Most employers will be thrilled to have a former service member just because of the training and discipline alone!

Good luck and Gods bless to all of OUR SOLDIERS, SAILORS, MARINES AND AIRMEN!!!

The EEOC has concluded that basing hiring decisions solely on military discharge status violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq.,

See EEOC Dec. 74-25, 10 FEP 260, 265 (1973) (2.6 percent of whites and 5.2 percent of African-Americans receive undesirable discharges); accordDozier vs. Chupka, 395 F. Supp. 836, 850-51 (S.D. Ohio 1975) (bonus points for honorable discharges invalidated).

Therefore, the “discharge” question should be asked with extreme caution and only when the information sought is directly relevant to a necessary characteristic for the desired job.

Further, to be safe, such inquires should be accompanied by a statement that a dishonorable discharge is not, in and of itself, an absolute bar to employment, and other factors will be taken into consideration when making the final hiring decision.

Especially under the “W” pentagon, some crazy right wingers have kicked people our based on no evidence and pretty nonsensical reasoning that has no carry-over to the civilian world, and in fact would likely be illegal to fire someone for in the civilian world. Little weight should be given to general or other discharges in light of the nonsense from the last administration politicizing the military heavily in the past eight years.