To promote innovative recommendations by the Secretary of Labor’s Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship (ACA) on the use of Registered Apprenticeship as a critical and timely solution to the nation’s workforce, economic, and education challenges; and to encourage the state, regional, and local leaders and the public workforce system to utilize the vision report as a resource for supporting apprenticeship opportunities in their own communities.

To provide information and procedural guidance to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) for receiving and handling requests for certification under the WOTC program, for all target groups, after the December 31, 2013, expiration date.

To ensure states are aware of the revised Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program and reflects the military pay increase effective January 1, 2014.

To assist State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (CSAs or “states”) to implement the sunset provisions to the Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011 (TAAEA or the 2011 Amendments) by providing operating instructions to apply to adversely affected workers covered by petitions filed on or after January 1, 2014, and identifying prior guidance that CSAs must continue to follow.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of the final report titled Assessment of the Workforce System’s Implementation of the Veterans’ Priority of Service Provision of the Jobs for Veterans Act of 2002.

To announce two new UI-ICON applications developed in response to: 1) provisions of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 for overpayment recoveries; and 2) provisions of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011 related to employer charges when employers fail to respond timely or adequately to requests for information.

To provide information and expand awareness of the expiration of the HCTC Program on January 1, 2014, and to advise Cooperating State Agencies (CSAs) in assisting job seekers and workers.

To inform and encourage American Job Center staff and State Workforce Agencies to use the Federal Bonding Program as an employer incentive when providing job placement services to assist ex-offenders and other at-risk job seekers. States may use Workforce Investment Act (WIA) funds and their own resources to supplement Federal funding to provide these services.

This Training and Employment Notice (TEN) serves as a reminder to states of the importance of ensuring that duplication of services is not occurring as a result of co-enrolling participants in the WIA and Wagner-Peyser programs.

To respond to further questions from state workforce agencies and to provide guidance related to claims filed by furloughed workers during the October 1-16, 2013, Federal government lapse in appropriations, or “shutdown,” and administrative funding for the program pursuant to the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014.