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 grant application process and to transmit guidance for the development, management, and delivery of state LMI/WI core and special information services to state and local workforce investment boards (WIBs), One-Stop Career Centers, and the job-seeking public.

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 advise states of the extension of and modifications to the Emergency Unemployment Compensation, 2008 (EUC08) program, the extension of the temporary provisions for the federal-state Extended Benefits (EB) program, and the expiration of the Federal Additional Compensation (FAC) program.

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To provide checklists of all currently active ETA Advisories as well as checklists of all ETA Advisories rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.

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 updated pages for the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Tax Performance System (TPS) Handbook, ET Handbook No. 407, 5th Edition.

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

Through this guidance, the Department of Labor is providing additional detail on the one-time availability of On-the-Job Training National Emergency Grants (OJT NEGs) funded with ARRA resources announced in Training and Employment Notice (TEN) 38-09.