To provide guidance and planning information to states, local workforce areas, and other recipients of Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Title I youth formula funds on the activities associated with the implementation of WIOA.

To announce a partnership between the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) encouraging collaborations between the workforce investment system and public libraries aimed at improving the quality and quantity of employment and training services to job seekers and unemployed individuals.

To announce the availability of a pre-implementation planning checklist to assist state UI agencies in preparing to launch modernized UI IT systems that support administration of UI benefits and/or tax operations.

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 transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the fourth quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2010.

To provide guidelines for the new FY 2015 UI RESEA (replacing the UI Reemployment and Eligibility Assessment (REA)) grants and to: 1) invite state workforce agencies to submit proposals for FY 2015 RESEA funding; 2) explain the differences between the traditional UI REA program and the new RESEA program, including the new flexibility that enables the funds to be used for both traditional REA activities and reemployment services (also called career services); 3) announce that FY 2015 will be a transition year to enable states to make the necessary changes to existing programs; 4) announce the U.S. Department of Labor's (Department) intent to add a performance measurement of the RESEA program using the integrated workforce system's common measures; and 5) encourage states, as they begin planning implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), to consider how to most effectively leverage the state's RESEA program.

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

To assist the State Workforce Agencies designated by the Governors as “cooperating state agencies” (CSAs) for administration of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program in implementing the funding and merit staffing of state administration provisions of the new regulations at 20 CFR Part 618, published on April 2, 2010 (75 Fed. Reg. 16988 - 17002).

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) 2015.

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.