To provide a checklist of all currently active ETA Training and Employment Guidance Letters (TEGLs) and all currently active Unemployment Compensation Program Letters (UCPLs)/Unemployment Insurance Program Letters (UIPLs) as well as a checklist of all ETA TEGLS and all ETA UCPLs/UIPLs rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.

To provide guidance to states and other Employment and Training Administration (ETA) federal assistance award recipients and subrecipients on the limitation on salary and bonus payments that can be made using funds appropriated to ETA.

To help state workforce agencies (SWA) and their partners develop a comprehensive, adaptable and strategic disaster preparedness and response planning process that can be quickly implemented by staff and partners who are well-trained, well-aligned, and fully supported, ETA is publishing The Disaster Lifecycle from Preparedness through Resiliency: A Guide for State Workforce Agencies (the Guide).

To clarify program eligibility for the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) authorized under Section 167 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).

To inform states that applications for additional scenarios for blanket waivers of recoveries of established overpayments under Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 20-21, Change 1, will no longer be accepted as of the publication date of this UIPL.

To update Training and Employment Notice (TEN) No. 27-23, Change 1 regarding states’ implementation of the Final Rule, Improving Protections for Workers in Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States, 89 FR 33898 (Apr. 29, 2024) (Farmworker Protection Rule), in light of recent Federal District Court Orders.

To advise states that to remain eligible for participation in NIDVO and have the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) directly cover at least two years of transaction costs subject to funding availability, states must implement one or both of the NIDVO services no later than December 31, 2025. To successfully deploy prior to this deadline, as described in more detail below, a state should begin the implementation process no later than October 20, 2025.

To provide urgent instructions to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) on data retention requirements for temporary pandemic-related UC programs, authorized under the CARES Act, as amended. This guidance reflects a change in policy and replaces prior guidance on this specific topic.

This guidance supersedes Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 11-19, Change 1, published May 10, 2023, and rescinds TEGL 03-17 WIOA Annual Performance Report Submission, published September 12, 2017, developed jointly by the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education (the Departments). Through this updated guidance, the Departments:

• Revise the negotiations process and requirements to incorporate changes made in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Effectiveness in Serving Employers Performance Indicator final rule (89 FR 13814 (Feb. 23, 2024)) (ESE final rule). This final rule, which took effect March 25, 2024, defines the Effectiveness in Serving Employers primary indicator of performance (ESE), as required by section 116(b)(2)(A)(i)(VI) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), as Retention with the Same Employer. The ESE final rule requires states to report the indicator as a shared indicator across the six WIOA core programs.
• Include requirements for the annual performance report submission requirements to encompass all requirements in TEGL 03-17.
• Clarify the standard for meeting requirements for submission of Eligible Training Provider results.
• Clarify the standard for meeting requirements for local area performance negotiations.

This guidance also continues to delineate the process for negotiating levels of performance, as required by section 116(b)(3)(A)(iv) of WIOA; the process for assessing state performance; and explains the two instances in which a state may be sanctioned (including the imposition of those sanctions), namely for performance failure or for failure to report (section 116(f) of WIOA).

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) the customer experience (CX) checklist (which describes principles to improve CX, as well as operational, experience, and outcome metrics) and related resources, with the goal of helping states to develop a baseline of current practices and identify areas needing improvement in their unemployment insurance (UI) programs.