DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-94,364

DITECH FINANCIAL LLC
LOAN SERVICING GROUP
AN INDIRECT WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF
WALTER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT CORP.
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM ACCOUNTING PRINCIPALS,
AEROTEK, ATTERO INC. DBA HUNTER HAMILTON, BEACON HILL STAFFING
GROUP LLC, FLEXION, HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION INC., INSIGHT GLOBAL,
INC., ITR GROUP INC., K FORCE INC., KELLY SERVICES INC.,
PRECISION PROFESSIONALS INC., RESOURCE PERSONNEL CONSULTANTS
COMPANY, LLC, ROBERT HALF INTERNATIONAL, AND VENDORPASS
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA

TA-W-94,364A

DITECH FINANCIAL LLC
RISK & COMPLIANCE GROUP
AN INDIRECT WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF
WALTER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT CORP.
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA

Determinations 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.
Workers of a firm may be eligible for worker adjustment
assistance if they satisfy the criteria of subsection (a), (b)
or (e) of Section 222 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), (b) and
(e). 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 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 the workers' firm
must have become totally or partially separated or be
threatened with total or partial separation.

(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) (I) imports of articles or services like or directly
competitive with articles or services produced or
supplied by the workers' firm have increased, OR
(II)(aa) imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles into which the
component part produced by the workers' firm was
directly incorporated have increased; OR
(II)(bb) imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles which are produced
directly using the services supplied by the
workers' firm have increased; OR
(III) imports of articles directly incorporating
component parts not produced in the U.S. that are
like or directly competitive with the article
into which the component part produced by the
workers' firm was directly incorporated have
increased; AND
(iii) the increase in imports 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.

(B) Shift in Production or Supply Path:
(i)(I) there has been a shift by the workers' firm to a
foreign country in the production of articles or
supply of services like or directly competitive with
those produced/supplied by the workers' firm; OR
(II) there has been an acquisition from a foreign
country by the workers' firm of articles/services that
are like or directly competitive with those
produced/supplied by the workers' firm; and
(ii) the shift described in clause (i)(I) or the
acquisition of articles or services described in
clause (i)(II) contributed importantly to such
workers' separation or threat of separation.

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 or
service 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."
Workers of a firm may also be considered eligible if they
are publicly identified by name by the International Trade
Commission as a member of a domestic industry in an
investigation resulting in a category of determination that is
listed in Section 222(e) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(e).
The group eligibility requirements for workers of a firm
under Section 222(e) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(e), can be
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
(1) the workers' firm is publicly identified by name by
the International Trade Commission as a member of a
domestic industry in an investigation resulting in--
(A) an affirmative determination of serious injury or
threat thereof under section 202(b)(1);
(B) an affirmative determination of market disruption
or threat thereof under section 421(b)(1); or
(C) an affirmative final determination of material
injury or threat thereof under section
705(b)(1)(A) or 735(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of
1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671d(b)(1)(A) and
1673d(b)(1)(A));

(2) the petition is filed during the 1-year period
beginning on the date on which--
(A) a summary of the report submitted to the
President by the International Trade Commission
under section 202(f)(1) with respect to the
affirmative determination described in paragraph
(1)(A) is published in the Federal Register under
section 202(f)(3); or
(B) notice of an affirmative determination described
in subparagraph (1) is published in the Federal
Register; and

(3) the workers have become totally or partially
separated from the workers' firm within--
(A) the 1-year period described in paragraph (2); or
(B) notwithstanding section 223(b), the 1-year
period preceding the 1-year period described in
paragraph (2).

The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on November 28, 2018, by a state workforce office on
behalf of workers of Ditech Financial LLC, Loan Servicing
group, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Walter
Investment Management Corp., including on-site leased workers
from Accounting Principals, Aerotek, Attero Inc. dba Hunter
Hamilton, Beacon Hill Staffing Group LLC, Flexion, Horizontal
Integration Inc., Insight Global, Inc., ITR Group Inc., K Force
Inc., Kelly Services Inc., Precision Professionals Inc.,
Resource Personnel Consultants Company, LLC, Robert Half
International, and VendorPass, St. Paul, Minnesota (TA-W-
94,364) and Ditech Financial LLC, Risk & Compliance group, an
indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Walter Investment
Management Corp., St. Paul, Minnesota (TA-W-94,364A). The
subject workers of the Loan Servicing group supply
administrative services for loan processing, including customer
payments, trustee payments, default payments, payoffs, account
maintenance, customer reimbursements, and other services. The
workers of the Risk & Compliance group are engaged in research
and data compilation services, which is an internal function
that supports Ditech operations and is not supplied to a major
customer of Ditech or other business entities.
During the course of the investigation, information was
collected from the petitioner and the workers' firm.


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Section 222(a)(1) has been met because a significant
number or proportion of the workers in such workers' firm of the
Loan Servicing group 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 Loan
Servicing group which contributed importantly to the worker
group separations at Ditech Financial LLC, St. Paul,
Minnesota.
TA-W-94,364A
With respect to Section 222(a)(2)(A)(ii) of the Act, the
investigation revealed that imports did not increase in 2016,
2017, or during the period of January through October 2018.
Imports of services like or directly competitive to research
and data compilation services supplied by the Risk & Compliance
group were not reported during the period of investigation.
With respect to Section 222(a)(2)(B) of the Act, the
investigation revealed that the firm did not shift the supply of
research and data compilation services supplied by the Risk &
Compliance group or like or directly competitive services to a
foreign country, or acquire research and data compilation
services or like or directly competitive services from a
foreign country.
With respect to Section 222(b)(2) of the Act, the
investigation revealed that Ditech Financial LLC, Risk &
Compliance group, is not 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).
Finally, the group eligibility requirements under Section
222(e) of the Act, have not been satisfied either because
Criterion (1) has not been met since the workers' firm has not
been publicly identified by name by the International Trade
Commission as a member of a domestic industry in an
investigation resulting in an affirmative finding of serious
injury, market disruption, or material injury, or threat
thereof.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Ditech Financial LLC,
Loan Servicing group, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of
Walter Investment Management Corp., including on-site leased
workers from Accounting Principals, Aerotek, Attero Inc. dba
Hunter Hamilton, Beacon Hill Staffing Group LLC, Flexion,
Horizontal Integration Inc., Insight Global, Inc., ITR Group
Inc., K Force Inc., Kelly Services Inc., Precision Professionals
Inc., Resource Personnel Consultants Company, LLC, Robert Half
International, and VendorPass, St. Paul, Minnesota (TA-W-
94,364), who are engaged in activities related to the supply of
administrative services for loan processing, including customer
payments, trustee payments, default payments, payoffs, account
maintenance, customer reimbursements, and other 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 Ditech Financial LLC, Loan Servicing
group, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Walter
Investment Management Corp., including on-site leased
workers from Accounting Principals, Aerotek, Attero Inc.
dba Hunter Hamilton, Beacon Hill Staffing Group LLC,
Flexion, Horizontal Integration Inc., Insight Global, Inc.,
ITR Group Inc., K Force Inc., Kelly Services Inc.,
Precision Professionals Inc., Resource Personnel
Consultants Company, LLC, Robert Half International, and
VendorPass, St. Paul, Minnesota (TA-W-94,364), who became
totally or partially separated from employment on or after
November 27, 2017, 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."
Additionally, I determine that the requirements of Section
222 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272, have not been met and,
therefore, deny the petition for group eligibility of Ditech
Financial LLC, Risk & Compliance group, an indirect wholly
owned subsidiary of Walter Investment Management Corp., St.
Paul, Minnesota (TA-W-94,364A), engaged in activities related
to the supply of research and data compilation services, to
apply for adjustment assistance, in accordance with Section 223
of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2273.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 3rd day of February 2019.

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