To advise and provide clarity to State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (CSAs or “States”) on the ongoing required activities under the TAA Program pending reauthorization.

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

To announce the Department of Labor’s (Department’s) interpretation concerning the application of state finality laws to temporary UC programs created under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, as amended.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from January 1 – March 31, 2024 (second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024).

To ensure states are aware of the Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program that reflects the military pay increase effective January 1, 2024.
 

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual COLA provided by the Department of Defense.

To ensure that states are aware that the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased for calendar year (CY) 2024, and to provide the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) COLA information.

To provide a checklist of all currently active ETA advisories as well as a checklist of all ETA advisories rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWA) are aware that employers seeking to hire foreign workers for temporary employment under a supplemental H-2B visa cap for work certified to commence in FY 2024 must contact an American Job Center (AJC) for assistance in recruiting U.S. workers for their job opportunities.

This Training and Employment Notice (TEN) reminds states of the statute of imitations for Federal prosecution of UI fraud and encourages states to submit timely referrals of COVID-19 pandemic era UI fraud cases to the Department of Labor’s (Department) Office of Inspector General (DOL-OIG).

To notify each State Workforce Agency (SWA) that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will use an Implementing Agreement (IA) and will no longer use a Questionable Employment Tax Practices (QETP) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to facilitate a SWA’s receipt of QETP data. Consequently, the IRS will terminate all existing QETP MOUs.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to announce the publication of the Wagner-Peyser Act Staffing final rule, which makes changes to the regulations regarding the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service (ES).  Additionally, this TEN provides information to states seeking to implement the revisions provided in the final rule as part of their Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Unified or Combined State Plan submission for 2026.

To announce the availability of a Program Topic Locator on the UI COP on WorkforceGPS and provide instructions on how to access the Program Topic Locator.

To provide updated procedural guidance to state workforce agencies (SWA) on the WOTC certification process.  This Change 1 and the materials and forms it discusses supersede the guidance outlined in Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 16-20, Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Procedural Guidance (March 31, 2021). 

To convey the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 initial funding allotments for WOTC application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWA), based on funding appropriated through a continuing resolution through November 17, 2023.

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides clarity around the U.S. Department of Labor’s (Department) use of the terms “access” and “equitable access,” and further describes how program integrity is impacted by efforts to ensure equitable access to the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program. This UIPL informs states of ways that equitable access can be evaluated and enhanced, including through technical assistance and tools from various Department initiatives and state-based partnerships.  

The purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to provide information to the public workforce system and other entities that receive federal financial assistance under Title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), as well as education and training programs or activities receiving Department of Labor (DOL) financial assistance, regarding the prohibition on discrimination based on actual or perceived religion, shared ancestry, or ethnic characteristics. 

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) conveys to states the Administration’s priorities, State Plan requirements, submission process, and deadline for WIOA Unified and Combined State Plans (State Plans) for PY 2024 through 2027, consistent with WIOA Sections 102 and 103.

To announce the release of updated Employment and Training Administration (ETA) approved posters for the Employment Service (ES) and Employment-Related Law Complaint System (Complaint System), described at 20 CFR 658.410(d), and to provide instructions for State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) to prominently display the posters in each one-stop center (American Job Center) and online. This Training and Employment Notice (TEN) rescinds TEN No. 15-09. 

To publish FY 2023 state-level RESEA outcome payment performance targets for the reemployment and reduced UI duration of RESEA participants and to provide states with a midyear analysis of their performance levels compared against these targets.