Bill Summary: HB3122 - Veterans Preference in Private Employment Act

• Permits private employers to voluntarily adopt a veterans' preference employment policy for hiring, promoting, and retaining veterans over equally qualified applicants or employees.

• Defines eligible veterans as those who served on active duty for more than 180 days with an honorable discharge, were discharged due to service-connected disability, or are Illinois National Guard members who separated under honorable conditions.

• Requires private employers adopting such policies to: put the policy in writing, publicly post it at the workplace or website, inform job applicants of the policy, and apply it uniformly to all hiring and promotion decisions.

• Allows private employers to verify veteran status using Department of Defense DD214/DD215 forms, National Guard NGB-22 discharge forms, or Department of Veterans Affairs disability award letters.

• Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act to exempt private employers' voluntary veterans' preference employment policies from anti-discrimination provisions.