DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,908

QUALITY ENHANCEMENT SERVICES, LLC
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS OF CORNERSTONE STAFFING
SOLUTIONS
FREMONT, CALIFORNIA

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 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 April 13, 2010 by a company official on behalf of
workers of Quality Enhancement Services, LLC, Fremont,
California. Workers at the subject firm are engaged in activities
related to automotive quality assurance inspection services. The
workers are not separately identifiable by function. The worker
group includes on-site leased workers of Cornerstone Staffing
Solutions.
The investigation revealed that workers of Quality
Enhancement Services, LLC, Fremont, California who are engaged
in activities related to automotive quality assurance
inspection services meet the criteria as suppliers for
secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number or
proportion of the workers in the workers' firm have become
totally or partially separated.
Criterion II has been satisfied because workers of Quality
Enhancement Services, LLC, Fremont, California supplied and
sold automotive quality assurance inspection services to a firm
that employed a worker group who is covered by an active
certification and that the automotive quality assurance
inspection services were related to the production of
automobiles.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business by
Quality Enhancement Services, LLC, Fremont, California, with
respect to automotive quality assurance inspection services
sold to the TAA-certified firm, contributed importantly to
worker separations at Quality Enhancement Services, LLC,
Fremont, California.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Quality Enhancement
Services, LLC, including on-site leased workers of Cornerstone
Staffing Solutions, Fremont, California, who are engaged in
automotive quality assurance inspection 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 Quality Enhancement Services, LLC,
including on-site leased workers of Cornerstone Staffing
Solutions Fremont, California, who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after April 12,
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 13th day of July, 2010



/s/Elliott S. Kushner
______________________________
ELLIOTT S. KUSHNER
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance