To inform all Employment and Training (ETA) workforce system agencies of additional Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reporting requirements under the FFATA effective October 1, 2010.

To announce the implementation of an online electronic filing application for petitions for TAA.

To announce the release and availability of the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Protocol for Implementing Priority of Service Regulations for Veterans and Eligible Spouses to assist and support those agencies and other grantees that receive funds from the Department to operate qualified job training programs in the implementation of Priority of Service for Veterans and Eligible Spouses.

To revise: (a) the ETA 581 Contribution Operations report, (b) Employment and Training (ET) Handbook No. 401, Unemployment Insurance Reports (UIR) Handbook – 4th Edition, and (c) ET Handbook No. 402, UIR User Manual – 5th Edition. The revisions are needed in order to change the following reporting requirements on the ETA 581 Contribution Operations report: (a) delete the items for reporting the number of outstanding contribution reports and estimated contributions for prior quarters; (b) add items for reporting State Unemployment Tax Act (SUTA) dumping detection activities; and (c) include all unreported employees when reporting misclassified employees discovered from audits.

To announce amendment to the regulations governing the criteria states must meet to obtain interest-free advances to pay Unemployment Compensation (UC) when their Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF) accounts have insufficient funds to pay benefits.

To advise states of the availability of a new Web-based tool to assist states in administering the provisions of the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010 (Extension Act).

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with instructions on how to navigate the Benefits and Tax applications of the Data Validation (DV) State Web Software Version 3.2.0.

To provide a summary of selected ETA 581 data with associated charts and tables for CY 2009.

To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper 2010-09, Innovating Under Pressure: The Story of the 2009 Recovery Act Summer Youth Employment Initiative: Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis & Marion County, Phoenix & Maricopa County.

To announce the release and availability of ETA’s Allied Health Access (AHA!) Guidebook: How to Develop Programs for Youth in Allied Health Careers.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the first quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2011.

To provide guidance to the states about the content of the WIA Annual Report narrative and the procedures for submission of the report to the Employment and Training Administration (ETA).

To alert Employment and Training Administration (ETA) grantees of multiple changes to CFDA numbers for existing ETA programs beginning in Program Year (PY) 2010.

To advise states of proposed changes for evaluating state UI employer audit programs through a new measure that will 1) include factors of worker misclassification detection and enforcement, and 2) become a new Core Measure in the UI Performs management system and to solicit comments on these proposed changes.

To request Area of Substantial Unemployment (ASU) designations in each state as defined in the WIA in order to allot funds under the Act for the period beginning July 1, 2011.

To announce the Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) new electronic tool, mySkills, myFuture, which will enable previously employed job seekers to match their occupational skills and experiences with the skills needed in other occupations, in order to enhance their career mobility and economic prospects.

This Training and Employment Notice (TEN) provides a framework for standardizing the collection and reporting of Workforce Investment Act (WIA) self-service only participant information. A more standardized approach will help ensure more consistent and comparable data on the numbers and characteristics of individuals who self-access workforce investment system information, and the activities primarily accessed through the use of electronic technologies and financially supported by both WIA and Wagner-Peyser Employment Service resources.

In general, this TEN clarifies self-service performance reporting policy by reiterating the existing definition and reporting instructions for WIA self-service only participants, examining how those instructions impact WIA performance data, and offering a “roadmap” for consistent reporting across the states and territories.

To provide an updated directory of Federal civilian and military agencies that have requested detailed benefit payment data, which supports the Department of Labor’s quarterly unemployment compensation billings.

To announce the release and availability of the ETA Occasional Paper 2010-08: Growing America Through Entrepreneurship: Final Evaluation of Project GATE

The intent of this guidance is to further clarify and consolidate changes to the performance reporting requirements for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. As such, this document replaces Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 24-08, issued May 21, 2009.