To respond to questions from state workforce agencies about the UC program integrity provisions of the TAAEA.

To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper: Evaluation of Waivers Granted Under WIA: Findings from Interviews with 20 States

To announce the release and availability of three papers prepared by individual researchers or researchers from independent or small firms competitively awarded funding as part of the 2010 ETA Research Papers Program.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to provide guidance for the use of WIA Youth-funded activities in PY 2012.

To announce the release and availability of a new Employment and Training Administration (ETA) research report entitled:  Evaluation of the Re-Integration of Ex-Offenders (RExO) Program:  Interim Report.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of a report titled An Effectiveness Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Registered Apprenticeship in 10 States.

To transmit revised WOTC forms and instructions, which were updated to reflect the amendments and new provisions in the VOW Act and other legislative changes to the WOTC program.

To provide guidance to grantees, and particularly State Dislocated Worker Units, on the applicability of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, 29 U.S.C., 2101-2109, to layoffs that may occur among Federal contractors, including in the defense industry, as a result of the sequestration mandated by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (BBEDCA), as amended by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA), 2 U.S.C. 901a(7)(A) and (8).

a. To provide preliminary FY 2013 dollar and staff year base resource planning targets for UI operations to be used in planning and developing State Quality Service Plans (SQSP); b. To provide general guidelines for FY 2013 resource planning; and c. To explain how base resources were allocated among states.

To transmit instructions for implementing the revised TAPR in accordance with reporting guidelines required by the enactment of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011 (TAAEA) (P.L. 112-40) and the Veterans Opportunity to Work (VOW) to Hire Heroes Act of 2011(P.L. 112-56).  This guidance also updates Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 6-09, Change 1, issued February 7, 2012, by:   

• describing the non-substantive changes that have been approved since its issuance;
• replacing TEGL No. 6-09, Change 1, Attachment A:  2012 Data Preparation and Reporting Handbook, including Appendix:  Trade Activity Participant Report, with TEGL No.6-09, Change 2, Attachment A:  2013 Data Preparation and Reporting Handbook and Attachment B:  Data Preparation and Reporting Handbook Appendix:  Trade Activity Participant Report; and
• making available an updated table of data validation edit checks to correspond with modifications and data element additions to the TAPR, as Attachment C to this TEGL.