DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,751

STANLEY FURNITURE COMPANY, INC.
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM STEWART STAFFING
LEXINGTON, 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(c) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c), can be
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
I. a significant number or proportion of the workers in
the workers' firm or an appropriate subdivision of the
firm have become totally or partially separated, or
are threatened to become totally or partially
separated;

II. the workers' firm is a Supplier or Downstream Producer
to a firm that employed a group of workers who
received a certification of eligibility under Section
222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), and such
supply or production is related to the article or
service that was the basis for such certification; and

III. either
(A) the workers' firm is a supplier and the component
parts it supplied to the firm described in paragraph
(2) accounted for at least 20 percent of the
production or sales of the workers' firm; or
(B) a loss of business by the workers' firm with the firm
described in paragraph (2) contributed importantly to
the workers' separation or threat of separation.

Section 222(d) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(d), defines the
term "Downstream Producer" as "a firm that performs additional,
value-added production processes or services directly for
another firm for articles or services with respect to which a
group of workers in such other firm has been certified under
subsection (a) [of Section 222 of the Act]" and defines the term
"value-added production processes or services" to "include final
assembly, finishing, testing, packaging, or maintenance or
transportation services."
The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on July 22, 2009 by a company official on behalf of
workers of Stanley Furniture Company, Inc., Lexington, North
Carolina. The workers are engaged in activities related to
warehousing and shipping of wooden residential furniture. The
worker group includes on-site leased workers from Stewart
Staffing.
The investigation revealed that workers of Stanley
Furniture Company, who are engaged in employment related to
warehousing and shipping of wooden residential furniture, meet
the criteria as Downstream Producers for secondary worker
certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number of
workers have become separated during the relevant period.
Criterion II has been satisfied because workers of the
Lexington, North Carolina facility warehouse and ship wooden
residential furniture for facilities of Stanley Furniture
Company that employed worker groups that are covered by active
certifications and the services supplied are related to the
articles that were the basis of those certifications.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
with the TAA-certified facilities contributed importantly to
the worker separations at the Lexington, North Carolina
facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Stanley Furniture
Company, Inc., Lexington, North Carolina, who are engaged in
employment related to production of wooden residential
furniture, 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 Stanley Furniture Company, Inc., including
on-site leased workers from Stewart Staffing, Lexington,
North Carolina, who became totally or partially separated
from employment on or after July 17, 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 8th day of January, 2010


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