The month of November is National Veterans and Military Families Month, and with Veterans Day coming up next week, now is the perfect time to celebrate the recent winners of the 2024 HIRE Vets Medallion Award. Learn more about this program and see which DirectEmployers Members were honored during this year’s award ceremony below!
About the HIRE Vets Program
The Honoring Investments in Recruiting and Employing (HIRE) American Military Veterans (HIRE Vets) Act of 2017 required the Secretary of Labor to establish a program, by rule, that recognizes employer efforts to recruit, employ, and retain veterans. Employer-applicants meeting criteria established in the rule then receive a HIRE Vets Medallion Award in recognition of these efforts. The program is broken into two categories, Gold and Platinum, and further segmented by company size (large, medium, small).
While the program began in 2018 with only 239 winners, this year, 838 employers were awarded Medallions. Congratulations to the following Members, as well as all employers who were honored!
Large – Platinum:
- NextEra Energy
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Southern Company
- United Rentals, Inc.
- Windstream Holdings
Medium – Platinum:
- Sonalysts, Inc.
Large– Gold:
- CACI International
- Entergy Corporation
- Everon
- Eversource Energy
- General Electric
- Leidos
- Leonardo DRS, Inc.
- Lockheed Martin Corporation
- ManTech International
- Northrop Grumman Corporation
- Phillips 66
- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
- Serco, Inc.
- Siemens Energy Inc.
- Sierra Nevada Co LLC
- SOS International (SOSi)
- The Boeing Company
Celebrating companies’ commitment to veteran hiring, retention, and professional development, the HIRE Vets Medallion Award is truly an honor! Interested in applying for next year’s program? Applications will be accepted starting in January 2025 – keep an eye on https://www.hirevets.gov/ or follow the U.S. Department of Labor on your favorite social media channels for the latest updates!
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