To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper 2010-02 titled, Assisting Newcomers through Employment and Support Services: An Evaluation of the New Americans Centers Demonstration Project in Arkansas and Iowa (Final Report), prepared by The Urban Institute.

This Training Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) lays out the vision for a revitalized transformed workforce system as a result of implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Further, it encourages workforce system leaders and partners to take action now to support successful implementation to fully realize the vision of WIOA. Finally, it provides an overview of upcoming guidance and technical assistance to support effective implementation of WIOA.

To announce the release and availability of the subject ETA Occasional Paper and its accompanying appendixes on the methodology used in the sample design and the baseline survey.

To announce the release and availability of the Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws Effective January 2015.

To extend the deadlines for all phases of the Career Videos for America’s Job Seekers Challenge.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) guidelines and key dates for the completion of IPIA 2015 UI BAM paid and denied claims sample cases and the publication of IPIA 2015 BAM data.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to notify Indian and Native American grantees of the Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) decision to provide designated grantees with the option to extend the two-year Comprehensive Services Program (CSP) plan and Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) plan through PY 2010. The reason for extending the current two-year plan is to align the Native American Program’s planning cycle with the State Workforce System’s planning cycle (State Workforce strategic plans have been extended for one additional PY). This will allow better coordination between the States and the Native American Program when developing partnerships and negotiating Memorandums of Understanding. In addition, the Department of Labor (DOL) is anticipating the reauthorization of WIA within the next year which may require the two-year strategic plans to be modified again.

To correct the effective date of the federal military retired pay annual cost of living adjustment (COLA) published in UIPL No. 08-15, "Federal Military Pensions." The correct effective date of the military COLA increases is December 1, 2014.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to: 1) define layoff aversion, and 2) provide guidance on the appropriate use of incumbent worker training (IWT) for layoff aversion if using local or Rapid Response funds via waiver.

To assist State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as "Cooperating State Agencies" (CSAs) (also jointly referred to as "states") in administering the TAA program by identifying the FY 2015 Initial Allocation amounts to states and describing the formula methodology the Department of Labor (Department or We) used to calculate these amounts; and to describe the process for states to request TAA program reserve funds for training, employment and case management services, job search allowances, relocation allowances, and related state administration.