The purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is fourfold. First, this TEGL officially reinforces the President’s goal that every American complete at least one year of postsecondary higher education or career training. Second, it announces the Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) commitment to the Secretary of Labor’s High Priority Performance Goal to increase credential attainment by participants of the public workforce system. Third, this TEGL describes strategies that state and local workforce agencies, their strategic partners, and ETA discretionary grantees can adopt to both increase the rate of credential attainment among workforce program participants and improve the quality of those credentials. Fourth, it clarifies the reporting requirements for each of the programs included in the goal. Any additional requirements on state or local workforce agencies or discretionary grantees would be addressed in future guidance.

To announce the availability of two online resource pages devoted to supporting states' efforts in implementing and complying with the new RESEA program requirements.

To advise states of the latest extension of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) program and temporary Extended Benefits (EB) provisions, and new temporary EB provisions.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) jointly remind State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) responsible for the administration of the UI program that state Labor Market Information (LMI) offices are important stakeholders and partners when states are modernizing their UI information technology (IT) benefits and tax systems and need to be included throughout the lifecycle of a modernization project. Concurrent with the publication of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN), BLS is issuing a LMI Administrative Memorandum with the same content as this TEN.

To provide additional information about the temporary changes to the federal-state extended benefits (EB) program made by the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010, and remind states of the continuation of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) nonreduction rule.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to announce changes to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) regulations as part of the implementation of the Wagner-Peyser Act Staffing Flexibility final rule. Additionally, this TEN provides information to states seeking to adopt the flexibilities provided in this rulemaking as part of their WIOA Unified or Combined State Plan submissions for 2020.

To announce the release and availability of seven ETA Occasional Papers (ETAOP 2010-11 through ETAOP 2010-17) on Literacy and Targeted Populations prepared by the American Institutes for Research (AIR).

To ensure states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.

To advise states of a new Core Measure in the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Performs performance management system to evaluate state UI employer audit programs and include elements of worker misclassification detection and enforcement.

To provide information about the 2020 UI SIDES Seminar sponsored by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) on March 3-5, 2020, in Kansas City, Missouri.