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TAW-85831  /  CareFusion Resources LLC (Albuquerque, NM)

Petitioner Type: Workers
Impact Date: 02/13/2014
Filed Date: 02/18/2015
Most Recent Update: 02/25/2016
Determination Date: 02/25/2016
Expiration Date: 02/25/2018

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-85,831

CAREFUSION RESOURCES, LLC
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE/FINANCE OPERATIONS
A SUBSIDIARY OF CAREFUSION CORPORATION
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM
AMERIT CONSULTING AND SABIO SYSTEMS, LLC
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO

Notice of Revised Determination
After Statutory Reconsideration

As required by the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reauthorization
Act of 2015 (TAARA 2015), which was enacted as Title IV of the
Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015, Public Law No. 114-27,
section 405(a)(1)(A), the investigation into this petition was
reopened for a reconsideration investigation to apply the
requirements for worker group eligibility under chapter 2 of title
II of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended by the TAARA 2015, to the
facts of this petition (statutory reconsideration).
The initial investigation, initiated February 18, 2015,
resulted in a negative determination, issued on March 20, 2015,
that was based on the Department finding that the firm’s
separations are not related to imports or a shift of work overseas.
The determination was applicable to workers and former workers of
CareFusion Resources, LLC, Accounts Payable/Finance Operations, a
subsidiary of CareFusion Corporation, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The workers’ firm is engaged in activities related to the supply of
accounts payable and financial operations services. The subject
worker group, clarified to be CareFusion Resources, LLC, Accounts
Payable/Finance Operations, a subsidiary of CareFusion Corporation,
Albuquerque, New Mexico includes on-site leased workers from Amerit
Consulting and Sabio Systems, LLC.
Based on information reviewed during the reconsideration
investigation, the Department of Labor determines that the subject
firm acquired services from a foreign country.
Section 222(a)(1) has been met because a significant number
or proportion of the workers in such workers’ firm have become
totally or partially separated, or are threatened to become totally
or partially separated.
Section 222(a)(2)(B) has been met because the workers’ firm
has acquired from a foreign country services like or directly
competitive with services supplied by the workers which contributed
importantly to worker group separations at CareFusion Resources,
LLC, Accounts Payable/Finance Operations, a subsidiary of
CareFusion Corporation, including on-site leased workers from
Amerit Consulting and Sabio Systems, LLC, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that workers of CareFusion
Resources, LLC, Accounts Payable/Finance Operations, a subsidiary
of CareFusion Corporation, including on-site leased workers from
Amerit Consulting and Sabio Systems, LLC, Albuquerque, New Mexico,
who are engaged in activities related to the supply of accounts
payable and financial operations 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 CareFusion Resources, LLC, Accounts
Payable/Finance Operations, a subsidiary of CareFusion
Corporation, including on-site leased workers from Amerit
Consulting and Sabio Systems, LLC, Albuquerque, New Mexico
engaged in activities related to the supply of accounts
payable and financial operations services who became totally
or partially separated from employment on or after February
13, 2014, 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 25th day of February, 2016


/s/Hope D. Kinglock
______________________________
HOPE D. KINGLOCK
Certifying Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance





DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-85,831

CAREFUSION
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE/FINANCE OPERATIONS DIVISION
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO

Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility
To Apply For Worker Adjustment Assistance
And Alternative Trade 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.
Workers of a firm may be eligible for worker adjustment
assistance if they satisfy the criteria of subsection (a) and (b)
of Section 222 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a) and (b). For the
Department of Labor to issue a certification for workers under
Section 222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), the following three
criteria must be met:
(1) 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 such workers' firm, or
an appropriate subdivision of the firm, have become totally or
partially separated, or are threatened to become totally or
partially separated
(2) The second criterion (set forth in Section 222(a)(2) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a)(2)) may be satisfied in one of two
ways:
(A) Increased Imports Path:
(i) sales or production, or both, at the workers' firm must
have decreased absolutely, AND
(ii) imports of articles like or directly competitive with
articles produced by such firm or subdivision have
increased; and
(iii) the increase described in clause (ii) contributed
importantly to such workers' separation or threat of
separation and to the decline in the sales or
production of such firm or subdivision.

(B) Shift in Production Path:
(i) there has been a shift in production by such workers'
firm or subdivision to a foreign country of articles like
or directly competitive with articles which are produced
by such firm or subdivision; and
(ii)(I) the country to which the workers' firm has
shifted production of the articles is a party to a free
trade agreement with the United States;
(II)the country to which the workers' firm has
shifted production of the articles is a beneficiary
country under the Andean Trade Preference Act, African
Growth and Opportunity Act, or the Caribbean Basin
Economic Recovery Act; or
(III)there has been or is likely to be an increase in
imports of articles that are like or directly
competitive with articles which are or were produced by
such firm or subdivision.

For the Department to issue a secondary worker certification
under Section 222(b) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(b), to workers of
a Supplier or a Downstream Producer, the following criteria must be
met:
(1) 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;

(2) 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 that was the basis for such
certification; and

(3) 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(c) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c), defines the
terms "Supplier" and "Downstream Producer."
The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on February 19, 2015 on behalf of workers of CareFusion,
Accounts Payable/Finance Operations Division, Albuquerque, New
Mexico. The workers' firm is engaged in activities related to the
supply of accounts payable and financial operations services.
The petitioners claimed that jobs were being outsourced to
India. During the course of the investigation, information was
collected from the workers' firm.
With regard to Section 222(a) of the Act, the investigation
revealed that the worker separations are not attributable to
increased imports of articles or a shift in production of articles.
Rather, the investigation confirmed that the worker separations are
attributable to a shift of accounts payable and financial
operations services to a foreign country.
With regard to Section 222(b) of the Act, the investigation
revealed that the workers' firm is not a Supplier or Downstream
Producer to a firm that employed a TAA-certified worker group.
In order for the Department to issue a certification of
eligibility to apply for alternative trade adjustment assistance
(ATAA), the worker group must be certified eligible to apply for
trade adjustment assistance (TAA). Since the workers are denied
eligibility to apply for TAA, the workers cannot be certified
eligible for ATAA.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that all workers of CareFusion,
Accounts Payable/Finance Operations Division, Albuquerque, New
Mexico engaged in activities related to the supply of accounts
payable and financial operations services are denied eligibility
to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade
Act of 1974, and are also denied eligibility to apply for
alternative trade adjustment assistance under Section 246 of the
Trade Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D.C. this 20th day of March 2015.

/s/Michael W. Jaffe
______________________
MICHAEL W. JAFFE
Certifying Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance