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

To notify addressees that the link to the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Labor Standards and Enforcement Regional Staff Contacts has changed.

To announce the Employment and Training Administration's (ETA's) creation of two new UI State Performance Excellence Awards to recognize states for program integrity performance and communicate a change to the performance evaluation time period for all future awards.

To provide information to states and outlying areas on WIOA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities program allotments for PY 2019; final PY 2019 allotments for the Wagner-Peyser Act ES Program, as required by section 6(b)(5) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended; and the allotments of Workforce Information Grants to states for PY 2019.

To provide an updated version of the Department of Labor’s Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Section 188 Disability Reference Guide to American Job Center (AJC) programs. The guide, now available at https://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/crc/188Guide.htm, provides promising practices that correlate with specific nondiscrimination and equal opportunity requirements in Section 188 of WIOA and its implementing regulations.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2019.

To notify the workforce system of jobs available on Guam and that the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) has updated the Contractor Recruitment Standards (CRS) that guide the recruitment efforts of selected contractors performing construction work related to the Guam military base realignment. These standards are mandated by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111–84, enacted October 28, 2009).

To announce the availability of up to $5 million for Fidelity Bonding Demonstration Grants for Program Year 2018. These grants will enable states to expand their use of fidelity bonds to help persons with criminal records, including ex-offenders recovering from opioid and other drug addictions, obtain employment.

To announce the release and availability of final evaluation reports from the evaluation of the Enhanced Transitional Jobs (ETJ) demonstration and the YouthBuild (YB) program and five study briefs from the Institutional Analysis of American Job Centers (AJCs).

To announce the release and availability of a NAWS national summary report on hired crop workers and associated public-use data files.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) aligns and streamlines performance indicators and requirements across 15 DOL Employment and Training Administration (ETA) programs to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) performance indicators, while also rescinding and eliminating outdated performance guidance for these programs in addition to clarifying existing ETA performance accountability policies that changed due to WIOA.

To announce the 2019 National Unemployment Insurance (UI) BTQ Review being held May 20-24, 2019, at the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Frances Perkins Building, located at 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C., 20210, and to request that Administrators from selected states ensure that two of their BTQ experts attend.

To announce the 2019 National Unemployment Insurance (UI) BTQ Review being held June 24-28, 2019, at the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Frances Perkins Building, located at 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C., 20210, and to request that Administrators from selected states ensure that two of their BTQ experts attend.

To advise state workforce agencies of the completion of the Federal State Data Exchange Billing (FSDEB) component of the Federal State Data Exchange System (FSDES) website.

To provide additional guidance to state workforce agencies concerning: 1) DUA documentation requirements for individuals filing DUA claims; and 2) applying the state law provision(s) for late filing of regular Unemployment Compensation (UC) appeals to DUA appeals.

To request that states provide to the Department of Labor (Department), in their submissions under Form MA 8-7, information pertaining to state work search requirements in effect as of October 1, 2018, for conformity purposes.

To support the Department of Labor's (DOL) goal to expand the capacity of the American Job Center (AJC) network to serve persons receiving Social Security disability benefits, this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) notifies the workforce system about the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Ticket to Work program's new administrative processes for public workforce employment networks (EN). This TEN replaces TEN No. 02-14, Receiving Ticket to Work Payments as an Employment Network.

To provide information about the 2019 UI SIDES Seminar sponsored by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) on April 2-4, 2019, in Nashville, Tennessee.

To assist State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as "Cooperating State Agencies" (also jointly referred to as "states") by identifying the FY 2019 Initial Allocation of TaOA funding amounts to states; describing the formula methodology used by the Department of Labor (Department) to calculate these amounts; and providing the process for states to request TAA Program reserve funds for TaOA. TaOA includes training, job search allowances, relocation allowances, employment and case management services, and related state administration.

To provide information to states about FY 2019 UI State Administration base resource allocations, general guidelines for resource planning, above-base funding, and SBRs.