DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,126

PASS AND SEYMOUR/LEGRAND
A DIVISION OF LEGRAND NORTH AMERICA
WHITSETT, NORTH CAROLINA

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. (Set forth in 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 company official on behalf of workers
of Pass and Seymour/Legrand, a division of Legrand North
America, Whitsett, North Carolina. The workers produce
electrical wiring devices.
The investigation revealed that workers of Pass and
Seymour/Legrand, who are engaged in employment related to the
production of electrical wiring devices, meet the criteria for
certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number of
the worker group have been separated from employment, due to
the pending closure of the facility.
Criterion II has been satisfied because the workers' firm
has shifted production of electrical wiring devices to Mexico
and China.
Criterion III has been met because the shift of
electrical wiring devices to Mexico and China by Pass and
Seymour/Legrand contributed importantly to worker group
separations at the firm.


Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Pass and
Seymour/Legrand, a division of Legrand North America, Whitsett,
North Carolina, who are engaged in employment related to the
production of electrical wiring devices, 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 Pass and Seymour/Legrand, a division of
Legrand North America, Whitsett, North Carolina, 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 19th day of June, 2009


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