DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-72,639

FAURECIA
SUBSIDIARY OF FAURECIA SEATING NAO
SEATING DIVISION
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM
HARVARD RESOURCES GROUP AND RELIANCE ONE
SHELBY TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN

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 "Supplier" as "a firm that produces and supplies directly
to another firm component parts for articles, or services used
in the production of articles or in the supply of services, as
the case may be, that were the basis for a certification of
eligibility under subsection (a) [of Section 222 of the Act] of
a group of workers employed by such other firm."
The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on October 21, 2009 by a company official on behalf of
workers of Faurecia, subsidiary of Faurecia Seating NAO, Seating
Division, Shelby Township, Michigan (hereinafter referred to as
Faurecia, Shelby Township). The worker group includes on-site
leased workers from Harvard Resources Group and Reliance One.
The workers are engaged in activities related to the production
of automotive seating, specifically foam cushions.
The investigation revealed that workers of the Faurecia,
Shelby Township, who are engaged in activities related to the
production of automotive seating, specifically foam cushions,
meet the criteria for certification.
Faurecia, Shelby Township is part of an integrated
production process supporting automotive seating production at
an affiliated plant in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
Workers at Faurecia Automotive Seating, Inc., Auburn Hills,
Michigan were certified eligible to apply for trade adjustment
assistance based on the status of secondary component supplier
of automotive seating.
Workers at Faurecia, Shelby Township are affected by the
same factors that led to the certification of the workers
engaged in the production of automotive seating at the
affiliated Auburn Hills assembly plant.
The investigation revealed that workers of Faurecia, Shelby
Township, who are engaged in activities related to automotive
seating, specifically foam cushions, meet the criteria as
Suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion
of the workers at the workers' firm were separated during the
relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because workers of Faurecia,
Shelby Township produced and sold foam cushions to an
affiliated plant as part of integrated production process of
automotive seating to a firm that employed a worker group who
is covered by an active certification.

Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by the subject firm with the TAA-certified firm with respect
to automotive seating, specifically foam cushions, sold to the
TAA-certified firm, contributed importantly to worker
separations at the Shelby Township, Michigan facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Faurecia, subsidiary
of Faurecia Seating NAO, Seating Division, including on-site
leased workers from Harvard Resource Group and Reliance One,
Shelby Township, Michigan, who are engaged in activities related
to the production of automotive seating, specifically foam
cushions, 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 Faurecia, subsidiary of Faurecia Seating
NAO, Seating Division, including on-site leased workers
from Harvard Resource Group and Reliance One, Shelby
Township, Michigan, who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after October 20, 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 23rd day of April, 2010


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