This training and employment guidance letter defines the characteristics of a good job; explains why job quality is important; and outlines how the workforce system should integrate good job strategies into its employer partnerships and workforce training.

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWA) are aware that employers seeking to hire foreign workers for temporary employment under a supplemental H-2B visa cap for work certified to commence in FY 2023 must contact an American Job Center (AJC) for assistance in recruiting U.S. workers for their job opportunities.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to provide uniform guidance regarding the goals and use of the new ApprenticeshipUSA brand, inform the workforce system of key initiatives for Registered Apprenticeship expansion, and share technical resources that can be used to promote Registered Apprenticeship overall. This TEN replaces the previous TEN 20-15, “ApprenticeshipUSA Information and New Technical Assistance Resources for Starting and Enhancing Registered Apprenticeship Programs,” since the information contained in the previous TEN is now obsolete, and the current TEN provides new and more detailed information. The ApprenticeshipUSA brand will unify, engage, and empower all stakeholders in the national Registered Apprenticeship system to help support the Department of Labor’s (DOL) broader goals. DOL’s goals include striving to expand, diversify, modernize, and strengthen Registered Apprenticeship so it can continue to meet critical industry needs and build a pipeline of diverse talent into good, quality jobs, especially for historically underserved and marginalized communities.

To announce the release of updated content published on the UI ID fraud reporting website at www.dol.gov/fraud and to encourage states to align their public messaging with the new content and reporting instructions on this website.

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

To ensure that states are aware that the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased for calendar year (CY) 2023, and to provide the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) COLA information.

To ensure states are aware of the Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program that reflects the military pay increase effective January 1, 2023.

To provide information regarding the 2023 UI SIDES Seminar to be hosted by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) on April 18-20, 2023, in Indianapolis, IN.

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWA) are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual COLA provided by the Department of Defense.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from January 1 – March 31, 2023, (second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2023).