To transmit special procedures, updated to reflect regulatory and organizational changes in the H-2A Program, for employers who apply to the Department of Labor (Department) to obtain labor certifications to hire temporary agricultural foreign workers in occupations involved in the open range production of livestock in the United States.

To transmit special procedures, as updated to reflect regulatory and administrative changes in the H-2A Program, for employers who apply to the Department of Labor (Department) to obtain labor certifications to hire temporary agricultural foreign workers in occupations involving an itinerary for the shearing of sheep, goats, alpacas, or other animals requiring shearing in the United States.

To describe and solicit comments on a proposed UI Performs Core Measure for UI Integrity.

To provide information and resources on promising practices and successful strategies that promote the enrollment, education, training and employment outcomes of youth with disabilities.

To inform states of the extension of the due date for declaring their intent to negotiate PY 2011 performance goals (or to use PY 2010 goals for PY 2011) and for submitting proposed performance goals when negotiating WIA Title 1B performance and customer satisfaction goals and performance levels for the Wagner-Peyser Act funded activities for PY 2011. The new deadline is June 20, 2011.

The U.S. Department of Labor (Department) is making an immediate call to action to all state administrators to ensure that UI integrity is a top priority and to develop state specific strategies to bring down the UI improper payment rate. This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides information to state workforce agencies about a national strategic plan to aggressively target UI overpayment prevention and to request that all states participate in a federal-state collaboration to significantly reduce each state’s and the national UI improper payment rates.

To transmit a revision of the Tax portion of ET Handbook No. 361, the UI DV Handbook.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to provide guidance for use of WIA Youth funded activities in PY 2011.

To provide the five outlying areas with PY 2011 allotments for the WIA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities programs.

To inform states of the guidelines for negotiating Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Title 1B performance and customer satisfaction goals and performance levels for the Wagner-Peyser Act funded activities for PY 2011. These performance goals, once they are agreed upon between the state and the Employment and Training Administration (ETA), will be incorporated into the state’s Strategic Plan for the WIA and Wagner-Peyser Act.

To provide Employment and Training Administration (ETA) grantees definitions of disbursements, expenditures, and obligations as they relate to the Federal reporting requirements specified in ETA grant agreements, the Uniform Administrative Requirements, and Government Accounting Standards to ensure consistent application of definitions in preparation of ETA’s financial reports.

To inform states of updates to the procedures to implement a program to recover unemployment compensation (UC) debt under the “Treasury Offset Program” (TOP) and to provide responses to frequently asked questions about the implementation process.

To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper titled Findings from a Study of One-Stop Self-Services: A Case-Study Approach

This guidance letter updates the procedures states should follow to apply for WIA section 503 Incentive Grants.

To announce a project spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (CFBNP) supporting the efforts of community-based and faith-based Job Clubs, and to encourage workforce leaders to develop collaborations between the workforce investment system and community-based and faith-based job clubs aimed at improving the quality and quantity of employment and training services to job seekers and unemployed individuals.

To inform states of the new methodology used to calculate the "on" or "off" total unemployment rate (TUR) indicators to determine when extended benefit (EB) periods begin and end in a state.

This Training and Employment Notice (TEN) serves to issue a follow-up announcement of the Building the Next Generation On-the-Job-Training (OJT) Toolkit. The OJT Toolkit is a compendium of policies, templates, and promising practices to support state workforce agencies and local OJT providers who are beginning to implement OJT or who are enhancing their OJT efforts. Since the initial announcement, ETA has continued to add resources such as the Quick Start Action Planner. The website can be accessed at https://ojttoolkit.workforce3one.org/. 

To encourage the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) Section 166-Indian and Native American Youth Program grantees to partner with public and tribal land management agencies within the U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture in an effort to increase work experience opportunities for Indian and Native American youth on public and tribal lands.

To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper: Examining a New Model for Prisoner Re-Entry Services: the Evaluation of Beneficiary Choice.

To inform and remind the workforce investment system of the performance reporting requirements and associated timelines for submitting quarterly and annual reports and data validation results for the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) title IB programs and National Emergency Grants (NEG); Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service; activities authorized under chapter 41 of title 38 United States Code (Local Veterans’ Employment Representative and Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Programs); the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program; the Indian and Native American Program (INAP); and the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP). This guidance also specifies that the 2011 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) supplemental reports requirements will be the final ARRA reports.