DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-55,125

VOLT TEMPORARY SERVICES
VOLT SERVICES GROUP
LEASED WORKERS ONSITE AT SR TELECOM, INC.
REDMOND, WASHINGTON

Notice of Negative Determination
on Reconsideration

On August 10, 2004, the Department issued an Affirmative
Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration for the
workers and former workers of the subject firm. The Department’s
notice was published in the Federal Register on August 20, 2004
(69 FR 51718). Separated workers are employees of Volt Temporary
Services, Volt Services Group working onsite at SR Telecom, Inc.,
Redmond, Washington.
The Department denied the initial petition because Volt
Temporary Services, Volt Services Group is not a company that
produces an article but is a staffing agency that satisfies
companies’ human resource needs by sending temporary workers to
fulfill a variety of needs. The initial petition was also denied
because Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services Group was not
under a written contractual relationship with SR Telecom, Inc.,
Redmond, Washington.
In the request for reconsideration, the petitioners allege
that the Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services Group workers who
were assigned to SR Telecom, Inc., Redmond, Washington performed
assembly work and did not perform administrative functions.
The reconsideration investigation revealed that while Volt
Temporary Services, Volt Services Group does not produce an
article, it does place workers in companies that are engaged in
production. During the reconsideration investigation, it was
confirmed that a written contract did not exist between Volt
Temporary Services, Volt Services Group and SR Telecom, Inc.,
Redmond, Washington.
A subject company official informed the Department that
almost seven hundred Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services Group
workers were placed in assignments in 2003 and over five hundred
Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services Group workers were placed
in assignments in 2004. Fifteen Volt Temporary Services, Volt
Services Group workers were placed with SR Telecom, Redmond,
Washington in 2003 and two Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services
Group workers were placed with SR Telecom, Redmond, Washington in
2004 (one performed administrative duties, the other performed
warehousing, packing and shipping/receiving duties).
At the time that SR Telecom, Redmond, Washington closed in
July 2004, only one Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services Group
worker was still assigned there. That employee was placed in SR
Telecom, Redmond, Washington in 2003 and is currently a permanent
employee of Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services Group.
The two Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services Group workers
who were assigned to SR Telecom, Redmond, Washington in 2004
ceased working there on July 12, 2004 because their assignments
naturally expired at that time. As such, there were no worker
lay-offs during the relevant time period.
Conclusion
After reconsideration, I affirm the original notice of
negative determination of eligibility to apply for worker
adjustment assistance for workers and former workers of Volt
Temporary Services, Volt Services Group, leased workers on-site
at SR Telecom, Inc., Redmond, Washington.
Signed at Washington, D.C., this 14th day of September 2004.

/s/ Linda G. Poole
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LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance