This book brings together materials, cases, and opinions regarding the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974; analyzes these materials; and examines their impact on employer personnel policies. These laws represent, in a sense, a relatively underdeveloped but potentially highly significant aspect of a continuing and expanding public policy of creating an ever-increasing number of protected groups that already comprise a majority of the labor force. A section of the book is devoted to each of the three acts. The final section is concerned with questions of public policy that have been found to exist in the administration of the laws and that are probably inherent in complex legislation designed to regulate industrial relations and personnel administration. Summaries of laws, excerpts from legislation, and other supplementary information are contained in appendixes. (Author/IRT)