What's New?

Updated November 15, 2022

  • WIOA Performance Assessment Web Based Training for titles I and III is now available via WorkforceGPS.
    The performance assessment ­web-based training helps workforce system staff and managers, Board members, and policy leaders better understand the annual performance assessment process and how a state’s programs are assessed.

  • Training and Employment Guidance Letter 23-19, Change 1 was issued on October 25, 2022.
    This guidance provides information to grant recipients of the U.S. Department of Labor workforce programs, including states, and provides guidelines for grant recipients to use in developing procedures for ensuring the data submitted for performance reporting are valid and reliable.

  • The Departments of Labor and Education announced a Joint Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to incorporate a standard definition for the Effectiveness in Serving Employers performance indicator. The 60-day public comment period closed on November 14, 2022, and the Departments are analyzing comments. 

  • The Department of Labor announced a DOL-only NPRM to incorporate a standard definition for Effectiveness in Serving Employers performance indicator in four programs: Indian and Native American Programs, Job Corps, YouthBuild and the National Farmworker Jobs Program. The 60-day public comment period closed on November 14, 2022, and the Departments are analyzing comments. 

  • The Quarterly Workforce System Results (QWSR) for the quarter ending March 31, 2022 is available (Program Year 2021, Quarter 3 | Fiscal Year 2022, Quarter 2)

  • Workforce Integrated Performance System (WIPS) updates are available on the WIPS page and Newsletters & Release Notes page.
    Updates include Edit Checks, Workforce Development Boards (WDB) Reporting Codes, and more.

  • WIOA Individual Performance Records for Q3 of PY 2021 are available on the Workforce Performance Results page. 
    The WIOA Individual Performance Record files contain detailed information on program completers (i.e., exiters), including demographics, types of services received, and outcomes attained as a result of participating in the program.

  • Economic Analysis and Annual Economic Reports are now available on the Workforce Performance Results page. 
    The Economic Analysis Report is an environmental scan of the state that sets the stage for informed, data-driven decision-making in workforce programs.