Equal Opportunity

The Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs (ADVA) is committed to affording fair and equal opportunity to all employees, contractors, customers, and job applicants. The ADVA engages in employment practices and administers its various services, activities, programs, and benefits without regard to a person’s race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, political beliefs, or disability.

To ensure adherence to these expectations, and to allow the ADVA to take prompt corrective action where these expectations are not met, the ADVA Director issues this Executive Directive to clarify the applicability of ADVA Policy 2-27 (Equal Opportunity), ADVA Complaint of Employment Discrimination form, and ADVA Discrimination is prohibited posting.

ADVA construes Policy 2-27 and its prohibition on discrimination to apply to the following entities: ADVA, ADVA’s contractors, ADVA’s grantees, and ADVA’s sub-grantees.