Petitioner Type: Company
Impact Date: 02/04/2002
Filed Date: 02/10/2003
Most Recent Update: 03/26/2003
Determination Date: 03/26/2003
Expiration Date: 03/26/2005
Employment and Training Administration
TA-W-50,816
NEVAMAR COMPANY
HIGH PRESSURE LAMINATE DIVISION
HAMPTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
Certification Regarding Eligibility to Apply for
Worker Adjustment Assistance
In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 USC
2273), as amended, the Department of Labor herein presents the
results of an investigation regarding certification of eligibility
to apply for worker adjustment assistance as a secondarily affected
worker group.
In order to make an affirmative determination and issue a
certification of eligibility for secondary workers to apply for
Trade Adjustment Assistance, the group eligibility requirements of
paragraph (b) of Section 222 of the Trade Act, as amended, must be
met. It is determined in this case that the requirements of (b) of
Section 222, as amended, have been met.
The investigation was initiated on February 6, 2003, in
response to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of
workers producing high pressure laminate at Nevamar Company,
Hampton, South Carolina.
The investigation revealed that high pressure laminate
produced at Nevamar Company, Hampton, South Carolina is supplied
to manufacturers of furniture, and a loss of business with these
manufacturers contributed importantly to the workers separations.
Evidence revealed that American Furniture in Martinsville,
Virginia, and Lea Industries in Waynesville, North Carolina, and
Marion, Virginia, to whom the petitioning workers' firm or
subdivision supplies high pressure laminate, each employed a
group of workers who received certifications of eligibility for
adjustment assistance, and such supply or production is related
to the article that was the basis for such certification.
American Furniture and Lea Industries were affected by imports
while reducing purchases of high pressure laminate from the
petitioning workers' firm. The aforementioned certifications for
eligibility are still valid.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers producing high pressure
laminate at Nevamar Company, Hampton, South Carolina qualify as
adversely affected secondary workers under Section 222 of the Trade
Act of 1974, as amended. In accordance with the provisions of the
Act, I make the following certification:
"All workers producing high pressure laminate at Nevamar
Company, Hampton, South Carolina who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after February 4,
2002, through two years from the date of certification are
eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223
of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended"
Signed at Washington, D.C., this 26th day of March 2003
/s/Richard Church
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Richard Church
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance