To announce the upcoming SMART Financial Training for ETA Grantees and ETA stakeholders between November 2015 and April 2016.

To announce the availability of resources developed through the Enhancing Workforce Leadership technical assistance initiative.

To help states comply with statutory and regulatory obligations to ensure access to the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program and its benefits, services, and information.

To provide information and procedural guidance to the State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) for processing requests for certification under the WOTC program after the December 31, 2011, expiration date for non-veteran target groups.

To remind state agencies of the requirements of Federal law pertaining to protecting individual rights in state procedures to prevent or recover unemployment compensation (UC) overpayments.

The intent of this guidance is to provide states with revised allotment levels for WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Fiscal Year 2012 funds which became available to states in October 2011. The original TEGL 9-11 indicated a 1.503 percent temporary rate of operations reduction; Change 1 amends this to a 0.189 percent rescission providing all fifty states and territories with additional funding.

The intent of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to provide guidance on the types of work sites that are acceptable for construction training for YouthBuild participants, describe the minimum construction activities allowed for work site training, and clarify the policy around successful exit as it pertains to hands-on occupational training. (This is a WIOA related advisory.)

To request Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Section 166 grantees to submit nominations for consideration by Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, for appointment to fill expiring terms of membership on the Native American Employment and Training Council (Council).

Since June 2008, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) has overseen the development and execution of a rigorous random assignment evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Adult and Dislocated Worker programs called the WIA Gold Standard Evaluation. This Training and Employment Notice (TEN) provides an update on the status of that evaluation and announces the release and availability of the first report from this evaluation: Providing Services to Veterans through the Public Workforce System: Findings from the WIA Gold Standard Evaluation, Volume I and II.

To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper, Process Evaluation and Outcomes Analysis:  Twin Cities RISE! Performance-Based Training and Education Demonstration Project Final Report.