DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,677

SPI AMERICA, LLC
HEALTHCARE DIVISION
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS OF MT MATCHMAKER
AS WELL AS HOME-BASED WORKERS REPORTING TO
SPI AMERICA, LLC, HEALTHCARE, DIVISION
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

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 28, 2009 on behalf of workers of SPi America, LLC,
Healthcare Division, Nashville, Tennessee. The workers are
engaged in providing medical transcription services.
The worker group includes home-based workers reporting to
SPi America, LLC, Healthcare Division, Nashville, Tennessee,
and on-site leased workers of MT Matchmaker.
The investigation revealed that workers of SPi America,
LLC, Healthcare Division, Nashville, Tennessee, who are
engaged in employment related to the supply of medical
transcription services, meet the criteria for certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number of
the workers were separated from employment during the relevant
period.
Criterion II has been met because the firm has shifted to
the Philippines and India the supply of services like or
directly competitive with the medical transcription services
supplied by the worker's firm.


Criterion III has been met because the shift of medical
transcription services to foreign countries by SPi America, LLC
contributed importantly to worker group separations at the
Nashville, Tennessee facility and reporting to the Nashville,
Tennessee facility from their homes.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of SPi America, LLC,
Healthcare Division, Nashville, Tennessee, who are engaged in
employment related to medical transcription services 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 SPi America, LLC, Healthcare Division,
Nashville, Tennessee, including on-site leased workers of
MT Matchmaker, as well as home-based workers reporting to
SPi America, LLC, Healthcare Division, Nashville,
Tennessee, engaged in employment related to the supply of
medical transcription services, who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after May 19,
2008, through two years from the date of certification, and
all workers in the group threatened with total or partial
separation from employment on the 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 14th day of December, 2009

/s/Michael W. Jaffe
______________________________
MICHAEL W. JAFFE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance