DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,486

ETHAN ALLEN RETAIL, INC.
LOMBARD, ILLINOIS

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 February 18, 2010 by a company official on behalf of
workers of Ethan Allen Retail, Inc., Lombard, Illinois. The
workers supplied warehousing and distribution services for
products manufactured at affiliated Ethan Allen facilities.
The investigation revealed that workers of the subject
firm, who are engaged in employment related to the supply of
warehousing and distribution services, meet the criteria as
Suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because all of the workers were
separated from the subject firm when operations at the
Lombard, Illinois facility ceased in February 2010.
Criterion II has been met because the subject firm
supplied a service directly to a firm that employed a worker
group eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA),
and the service supplied was related to the production of an
article or the supply of a service that was the basis for TAA
certification.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by the subject firm with the afore-mentioned firm, with
respect to the services supplied, contributed importantly to
worker separations at the Lombard, Illinois facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Ethan Allen Retail,
Inc., Lombard, Illinois, who are engaged in employment related
to the supply of warehousing and distribution services, meet
the worker group certification criteria under Section 222(c) of
the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c). In accordance with Section 223 of
the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2273, I make the following certification:
"All workers of Ethan Allen Retail, Inc., Lombard,
Illinois, who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after February 10, 2009, 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 1st day of September, 2010

/s/Del Min Amy Chen
______________________________
DEL MIN AMY CHEN
Certifying Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance