We are pleased to announce Workforce System Strategies – a new technical assistance repository designed to make it easier for workforce system professionals to quickly find information that supports positive customer outcomes.  Workforce System Strategies is a highly-searchable tool populated with a growing number of experimental studies, implementation evaluations, and peer-informed how-to guides.  You can use Workforce System Strategies to:

• Help job seekers and employer customers achieve better outcomes
• Identify preliminary evidence that may be useful in program design
• Be at the forefront of the workforce system

To emphasize and support the use of layoff aversion and its critical role in creating and sustaining high-performing Rapid Response systems, and to provide examples of allowable and recommended activities and partnerships key to averting layoffs.

To inform the workforce system of two outreach campaigns to prevent fatal falls in construction and heat illness in outdoor workers.

To announce the release and availability of the Comparison of State Unemployment Insurance Laws 2012.

To provide guidance to states about their ongoing responsibilities for preventing, detecting and recovering improper payments of EUC, EB and FAC, and inform states of a new management information measure to capture states’ progress in conducting and improving their program integrity activities related to these Federally funded programs

This notice announces and solicits nominees for a UI Benefit Financing Seminar to be held October 16-19, 2012, in Washington, D.C.

To notify State Workforce Agencies of the opportunity to apply for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 funds as the lead state to establish, via a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s (Department) Employment and Training Administration (ETA), a national UI Integrity Center of Excellence (Center). The Center will develop and promote innovative UI program integrity strategies to reduce improper payments and prevent and detect fraud.

To respond to questions from State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (CSAs) (also jointly referred to as “states”) that administer the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program, as amended by the TAAEA.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) has two purposes:

1. To provide updates and clarifications on waiver policies including those originally articulated in TEGL 26-09; and
2. To provide information on work-flex quarterly reports, and to announce renewal of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for work-flex plan submission and quarterly reports.

To invite states to apply for grant funds for Short-Time Compensation (STC) programs and issue guidance on the process to apply for these grants provided for under Section 2164 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (Act), which supports the Secretary of Labor’s (Secretary) commitment to help employers and workers avert layoffs.