DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
TA-W-54,924

NORTHLANDS ORTHOPAEDIC
AND SPORTS MEDICINE ASSOCIATES, P.A.
CLIFTON, NEW JERSEY

Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility
To Apply For Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended (19 USC 2273), the Department of Labor herein presents the
results of an investigation regarding certification of eligibility
to apply for worker adjustment assistance.
The investigation was initiated on May 18, 2004, in response
to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of workers of
Northlands Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Associates, P.A.,
Clifton, New Jersey. The workers performed transcription of
medical records.
In order to be considered eligible to apply for adjustment
assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, the worker
group seeking certification (or on whose behalf certification is
being sought) must work for a "firm" or appropriate subdivision
that produces an article domestically and there must be a
relationship between the workers' work and the article produced by
the workers' firm or appropriate subdivision. The investigation
revealed that production of an article(s) did not occur within the
firm or appropriate subdivision and the medical transcriptionists
do not support any production. Thus the worker group can not be
considered import impacted or affected by a shift in production of
an article.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Northlands Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Associates, P.A.,
Clifton, New Jersey are denied eligibility to apply for adjustment
assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D. C. this 9th day of June 2004.

/s/ Elliott S. Kushner
______________________________
ELLIOTT S. KUSHNER
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance