The U.S. Department of Labor is stepping up efforts to encourage employers to hire veterans and those with disabilities.

DOL issued two final rules this week "to improve hiring and employment of veterans and for people with disabilities," it said in a release.

One addresses areas of the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 that DOL decided needed strengthening.

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