In response to the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), this guidance requests State Workforce Agencies (SWA), in coordination with the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) grantees, take certain actions and provide information regarding measures to support health and safety for migrant and seasonal farmworkers (MSFW) and agricultural employers.

To announce the 2015 UI Integrity Technology Symposium, being held on September 1-2, 2015, in Washington, D.C.

a. To provide preliminary FY 2012 dollar and staff year base resource planning targets for UI operations to be used in planning and developing State Quality Service Plans (SQSP); b. To provide general guidelines for FY 2012 resource planning; and c. To explain how base resources were allocated among states.

To rescind TEGL 39-14 and replace it with TEGL 39-14, Change 1. Change 1 clarifies in Section 6c and in Attachment 2, Other Requirements-Data Collection (attachment page 4) that when a grantee conducts ETA data collection activities in an alternative manner from BLS technical standards and methodologies, they are requested to document and submit a defensible rationale to the appropriate ETA regional office, but they are not required to obtain advance approval from that office. The remainder of the TEGL remains unchanged.

To provide information and procedural guidance to the state workforce agencies (SWAs) on legislative program extensions through December 31, 2011.

To respond to questions regarding the changes to the ETA 227 Report, "Overpayment Detection and Recovery Activities," and to add to the instructions provided in Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 08-12.

To provide a summary of selected ETA 581 data with associated charts and tables for CY 2010.

To update state workforce agencies on the Employment and Training Administration's (ETA) efforts to reengineer UI benefits program accountability processes to improve program performance and integrity and to provide more information on state impacts and timelines for implementation.

To inform State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as "Cooperating State Agencies" (also jointly referred to as "States") of the assumptions used in determining the FY 2011 Training Cap; to inform States of the Department of Labor's (Department) decision to distribute 100 percent of these funds through this distribution; and to provide the funding formula used in calculating the Second Distribution of FY 2011 Training Funding Amounts, defined as the remainder of the 35 percent of fiscal year training funds that were held in reserve, as well as to the remainder of job search and relocation allowance funds that were not distributed to States in response to reserve requests received before July 1, 2011.

To respond to questions asked by state workforce agencies during a webinar held on April 6, 2015, about the RESEA program.