To announce the release of updates made to the Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) suite of online career tools for jobseekers, students, workforce professionals, and businesses, including CareerOneStop, Certification Finder, the Worker Reemployment Portal, the Veteran Reemployment Portal, mySkills myFuture, My Next Move, My Next Move for Veterans, and the Healthcare Virtual Career Network.

To provide State Plan information to states that implement the American Job Center brand.

To respond to questions from state workforce agencies about the UC program integrity provisions of the TAAEA.

To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper: Evaluation of Waivers Granted Under WIA: Findings from Interviews with 20 States

To announce the release and availability of three papers prepared by individual researchers or researchers from independent or small firms competitively awarded funding as part of the 2010 ETA Research Papers Program.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to provide guidance for the use of WIA Youth-funded activities in PY 2012.

To transmit revised WOTC forms and instructions, which were updated to reflect the amendments and new provisions in the VOW Act and other legislative changes to the WOTC program.

To announce the release and availability of a new Employment and Training Administration (ETA) research report entitled:  Evaluation of the Re-Integration of Ex-Offenders (RExO) Program:  Interim Report.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of a report titled An Effectiveness Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Registered Apprenticeship in 10 States.

To provide guidance to grantees, and particularly State Dislocated Worker Units, on the applicability of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, 29 U.S.C., 2101-2109, to layoffs that may occur among Federal contractors, including in the defense industry, as a result of the sequestration mandated by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (BBEDCA), as amended by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA), 2 U.S.C. 901a(7)(A) and (8).