Walmart nears important hiring goal
Walmart is now more than 80% of the way to reaching its goal to hire 250,000 veterans by 2020.
The discounter announced that it has hired more than 206,000 veterans — and promoted more than 30,000 to roles with higher pay and greater responsibility — since launching its Veterans Welcome Home Commitment initiative in May 2013. The program guarantees a job offer to any eligible, honorably discharged U.S. veteran who has separated from service since the commitment.
Walmart introduced the Veterans Welcome Home Commitment with an initial goal to hire 100,000 veterans by the end of 2018. In May 2015, Walmart revised its goal to hire 250,000 veterans, including veterans hired within the Welcome Home Commitment as well as other veterans hired by Walmart, by the end of 2020.
Walmart also changed the eligibility under the Welcome Home Commitment from within 12 months of active duty, to any veteran who has been honorably discharged since the announcement of the program in May 2013.
Walmart’s military programs not only focus on transitioning veterans, but also those currently serving and military spouses. The Military Family Promise guarantees a job at a nearby store or club for all military personnel and military spouses employed by the company who move to a different part of the country because they or their spouse have been transferred by the U.S. military. The policy allows service members and military spouses to remain in the same personnel and pay systems and gives them the opportunity to turn jobs into careers.
Approximately 1,300 veterans and their families return to civilian life every day, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.
The discounter announced that it has hired more than 206,000 veterans — and promoted more than 30,000 to roles with higher pay and greater responsibility — since launching its Veterans Welcome Home Commitment initiative in May 2013. The program guarantees a job offer to any eligible, honorably discharged U.S. veteran who has separated from service since the commitment.
Walmart introduced the Veterans Welcome Home Commitment with an initial goal to hire 100,000 veterans by the end of 2018. In May 2015, Walmart revised its goal to hire 250,000 veterans, including veterans hired within the Welcome Home Commitment as well as other veterans hired by Walmart, by the end of 2020.
Walmart also changed the eligibility under the Welcome Home Commitment from within 12 months of active duty, to any veteran who has been honorably discharged since the announcement of the program in May 2013.
Walmart’s military programs not only focus on transitioning veterans, but also those currently serving and military spouses. The Military Family Promise guarantees a job at a nearby store or club for all military personnel and military spouses employed by the company who move to a different part of the country because they or their spouse have been transferred by the U.S. military. The policy allows service members and military spouses to remain in the same personnel and pay systems and gives them the opportunity to turn jobs into careers.
Approximately 1,300 veterans and their families return to civilian life every day, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.