To inform the public workforce system and other entities that receive federal financial assistance under Title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), as well as education and training programs and activities receiving Department of Labor (DOL) financial assistance on how to: (1) prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV), which can be a form of sex discrimination prohibited by nondiscrimination and equal opportunity laws applicable to the workforce development system, and (2) reduce barriers that GBV survivors face in seeking jobs and participating in covered programs and activities.

To publish FY 2024 state-level RESEA outcome payment performance targets for the reemployment and reduced UI duration of RESEA participants and to provide states with a midyear analysis of their performance levels compared against these targets.

To provide states with instructions for requesting continued workload-based administrative funding for CARES Act benefit programs. The programs covered under this Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) include Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), and Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC).

To inform states of the discontinuation of the CWC 02-12 application in UI-ICON and provide an alternative method for paying states to communicate to the transferring state(s) an employer’s failure to timely or adequately respond to State Workforce Agencies’ (SWA) requests for information relating to a CWC.

To inform Employment and Training Administration (ETA) federal financial assistance recipients of an update to Part 200, Subpart F of title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) which allows for an extension of the deadline to submit the Single Audit report in instances where it causes undue burden on the auditee(s).

To announce the IDH EDM webinar, which is scheduled to occur on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, at 3:00pm (Eastern Time).
 

To provide guidance to Employment and Training Administration (ETA) grant recipients and subrecipients on the implementation of OMB’s Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance, which goes into effect on October 1, 2024.  The final guidance revises several parts of 2 CFR subtitle A, “OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance” (formerly “OMB Guidance for Grants and Agreements”).  This includes revisions to 2 CFR part 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards “Uniform Guidance.”

To advise states of sequestration rules for FY 2025 to ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) apply these rules to mandatory UI programs.

To update Training and Employment Notice (TEN) No. 27-23 regarding states’ implementation of the Final Rule, Improving Protections for Workers in Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States, 89 FR 33898 (Apr. 29, 2024) (Farmworker Protection Rule), in light of an August 26, 2024, court order prohibiting the U.S. Department of Labor (Department or DOL) from enforcing the Final Rule in 17 states and against Miles Berry Farm and members of the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association as of August 26, 2024. 

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from October 1 – December 31, 2024 (first quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025).