The sections below include links to the WIOA statute, laws, regulations, and current operational guidance. Click any for additional information.

WIOA Statute

• Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act; https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr803/BILLS-113hr803enr.pdf

• Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act; Joint Rule for Unified and Combined State Plans, Performance Accountability, and the One-Stop System Joint Provisions; Final Rule

• Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act; Department of Labor Only; Final Rule

• State Vocational Rehabilitation Services Program; State Supported Employment Services Program; Limitations on Use of Subminimum Wage; Final Rule

• Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Miscellaneous Program Changes; Final Rule

• Programs and Activities Authorized by the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (Title II of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act); Final Rule

• Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933, https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/american-job-centers/wagner-peyser

• Implementation of the Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity Provisions of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (Section 188)

WIOA Guidance

This list of guidance is non-exhaustive and applies only to ETA programs. ETA has published a number of documents to guide the operationalization of WIOA, with the most recent and popular listed below. Find the full library of guidance here.

• Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 03-23
  • This guidance clarifies the allowable uses of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), its successors, and other competitive grant funds for outreach activities; and provides examples of how grantees can use grant funds to effectively and equitably conduct outreach to meet the needs of and better engage businesses and jobseekers.
• Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 15-22
  • Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities Program Allotments for Program Year (PY) 2023; PY 2023 Allotments for the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service (ES) Program; and PY 2023 Allotments of Workforce Information Grants to States
• Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 09-22
  • Guidance and planning information to states, local workforce areas, and other recipients of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I youth formula funds on the activities associated with the implementation of WIOA
• Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 07-22
  • Increasing Employer and Workforce System Customer Access to Good Jobs
• Training and Employment Notice (TEN) 16-22
  • The Employment and Training Administration is Implementing GrantSolutions for Grant Award Processing and the Payment Management System for Financial Reporting
• Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 22-20
  • Program Year (PY) 2021 Funding Allotments and Instructions for the Indian and Native American (INA) Programs
• Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 23-20
  • Program Year (PY) 2021 Planning Guidance for National Farmworker Jobs Program Career Services and Training Grantees and Housing Grantees
• Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 07-20
  • Effective Implementation of Priority of Service Provisions for Most in Need Individuals in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult Program
• Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 08-19
  • Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Training Provider Eligibility and State List of Eligible Training Providers (ETPs) and Programs
• Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 19-16
  • Guidance on Services provided through the Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service (ES), as amended by title III of WIOA, and for Implementation of the WIOA Final Rules
• Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 21-16
  • Third Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Youth Formula Program Guidance