The Department of Labor has announced its 2025 HIRE Vets Medallion Award recipients. The awards, administered by DOL’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service, acknowledge employers that demonstrate efforts to recruit, employ, and retain military veterans.

The list of employers honors several CWC member organizations, including Battelle Energy Alliance, Battelle Savannah River Alliance, Entergy Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Savannah River National Laboratory.

The HIRE Vets Medallion Award program was established by the Honoring Investments in Recruiting and Employing American Military Veterans Act of 2017. To qualify, employers must attest that they meet hiring, retention, and programmatic criteria. For large employers, award levels are tied to veteran hiring and retention benchmarks and supporting infrastructure such as veteran resource groups, leadership development programs, and human resources support.

The HIRE Vets Medallion Awards provide insight into the veteran-focused employment practices that DOL VETS considers exemplary, particularly with respect to measurable hiring and retention outcomes and formal internal support structures.

Additional information about the program is available at www.hirevets.gov.

Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, can read more here.