DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,086

EBI HOLDINGS, LLC
HEALTH INSURANCE VERIFICATION AND BILLING DEPARTMENT
D/B/A BIOMET SPINE, TRAUMA, OSTEOBIOLOGICS AND BRACING
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM VENTURI PARTNERS AND
WINSTON STAFFING
PARSIPPANY, NEW JERSEY

Certification Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended ("Act"), 19 U.S.C. § 2273, the Department of Labor
herein presents the results of an investigation regarding
certification of eligibility to apply for worker adjustment
assistance.
The group eligibility requirements for workers of a firm
under Section 222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), are
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
I. The first criterion (set forth in Section 222(a)(1) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a)(1)) requires that a significant
number or proportion of the workers in the workers' firm
must have become totally or partially separated or be
threatened with total or partial separation.

II. The second criterion (set forth in Section 222(a)(2) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a)(2)) may be satisfied if either:

(i)(I) there has been a shift by the workers' firm to a
foreign country in the production of articles or
supply of services like or directly competitive with
those produced/supplied by the workers' firm; OR
(i)(II) there has been an acquisition from a foreign
country by the workers' firm of articles/services that
are like or directly competitive with those
produced/supplied by the workers' firm.

III. The third criterion requires that the shift/acquisition
must have contributed importantly to the workers'
separation or threat of separation. See Section
222(a)(2)(B)(ii) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. §
2272(a)(2)(B)(ii).

The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on May 18, 2009 by a State of New Jersey workforce office
representative on behalf of workers of EBI Holdings, LLC d/b/a
Biomet Spine, Trauma, Osteobiologics and Bracing, Health
Insurance Verification and Billing Department, including on-
site leased workers from Venturi Partners and Winston
Staffing, Parsippany, New Jersey. The workers are engaged in
activities related to health insurance verification and
billing.
The investigation revealed that workers of EBI Holdings,
LLC d/b/a Biomet Spine, Trauma, Osteobiologics and Bracing,
including on-site leased workers, who are engaged in
employment related to health insurance verification and
billing meet the criteria for certification.
Criterion I has been met because more than twenty percent
of the workers were laid off in the insurance verification and
billing department and more worker separations are
anticipated.
Criterion II has been satisfied because the workers' firm
has shifted to India the supply of services like or directly
competitive with health insurance verification and billing
supplied by the workers.
Criterion III has been met because the shift of health
insurance verification and billing to India by EBI Holdings,
LLC d/b/a Biomet Spine, Trauma, Osteobiologics and Bracing
contributed importantly to worker group separations at EBI
Holdings, LLC d/b/a Biomet Spine, Trauma, Osteobiologics and
Bracing.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of EBI Holdings, LLC
d/b/a Biomet Spine, Trauma, Osteobiologics and Bracing, Health
Insurance Verification and Billing Department, including on-
site leased workers from Venturi Partners and Winston
Staffing, Parsippany, New Jersey, who are engaged in employment
related to health insurance verification and billing meet the
worker group certification criteria under Section 222(a) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a). In accordance with Section 223 of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2273, I make the following certification:


"All workers of EBI Holdings, LLC d/b/a Biomet Spine,
Trauma, Osteobiologics and Bracing, Health Insurance
Verification and Billing Department, including on-site
leased workers from Venturi Partners and Winston
Staffing, Parsippany, New Jersey, who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after May 18,
2008, through two years from the date of certification, and
all workers in the group threatened with total or partial
separation from employment on date of certification through
two years from the date of certification, are eligible to
apply for adjustment assistance under Chapter 2 of Title II
of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended."
Signed in Washington, D.C., this 23rd day of June, 2009.


/s/Richard Church
______________________________
RICHARD CHURCH
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance