Registered Apprenticeship is an important workforce development strategy that the workforce system provides to its customers, both job seekers and employers. It is an evidence-based model for job seekers and is a job-driven strategy for employers and industries. Engagement with employers, institutions of higher education, and policy makers has ramped up significantly in order to achieve the administration's goal to double the number of apprentices across the United States. This is an historic opportunity for the workforce system to expand its business base and offer job seekers greater employment prospects while offering employers a strategic approach to talent development. The purpose of this guidance is to provide information about the new provisions for Registered Apprenticeship in WIOA, including the status of Registered Apprenticeship sponsors as Eligible Training Providers, membership on State and Local Workforce Boards, the use of WIOA funding to support Registered Apprenticeship, reporting on Registered Apprenticeship activity, and suggestions about how to coordinate with the Registered Apprenticeship system.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 25-15, Change 1 clarifies the U.S. Department of Labor's policy on eligibility determinations for the new target group (see Section 6), changes the certification date from September 29, 2016, to September 28, 2016 (see Section 9), increases the number of days from 30 days to 90 days for employers to submit a needs letter (see Section 12), and extends the 90-day grace period for states to modify their automated systems and grants an additional 90-day grace period for State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) to accept certification requests on "previously OMB approved"forms (see Section 13). The remainder of this TEGL informs and provides procedural guidance to the State Workforce Agency (SWA), participating agencies, and Federal and State partners on the retroactive legislative reauthorization of all Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) target groups, the Empowerment Zones that expired on December 31, 2014, and the introduction of a new target group and new WOTC ETA Forms. This TEGL also provides procedural guidance to SWAs for processing and issuing determinations for all certification requests.

To announce the release and availability of a final report, Implementation of the H-1B Technical Skills Training Grant: Grantee Characteristics and Experiences Providing Employer-Based Training, that describes the experiences of the H-1B Technical Skills Training (TST) grantees, highlights two types of program interventions used to address long-term unemployment, On-the-Job-Training (OJT) and incumbent worker training, as well as employer-based strategies. This report describes the TST program findings based on data and other information collected between the autumn 2013 and spring 2014. In addition to the data analysis, the report provides an overview of the TST grant programs, structure, size and services; and includes examples of five TST grant programs identified through site visits for the study.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to provide the workforce system examples, best practices, partnership models, and information on how to align resources available under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) to increase services to English Language Learners (ELL) with substantial cultural and language barriers to employment. It further provides information to the workforce system, including partner programs and entities that are jointly responsible for workforce and economic development, educational, and other human resource programs, about how to align their efforts to provide basic career services, individualized career services, and training services.

To revise the status of Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 11-02 Operating Instructions for Implementing the Amendments to the Trade Act of 1974 Enacted by the Trade Act of 2002 and TEGL 11-02, Change 1 Change 1 to the Operating Instructions for Implementing the Amendments to the Trade Act of 1974 Enacted by the Trade Act of 2002.

To ensure State Workforce Agencies are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual cost of living adjustment (COLA) provided by the Department of Defense.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of two papers under the subject project: Strategies for Connecting Unemployment Insurance (UI) Claimants to the Workforce System: Findings from the Implementation Study of the UI Workforce Connectivity Grant Program, and Experiences of Three States in Developing Social Media Strategies for Employment Assistance Programs.

To ensure states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.

To ensure states are aware of the Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program that reflects the military pay increase effective January 1, 2017.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) Change 3 provides the newly awarded national and set-aside SCSEP grantees with the allocations and the process and procedures for requesting Optional Special Requests (OSR) for the third and fourth quarters of Program Year (PY) 2016.