The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to announce that the U.S. Department of Labor’s (Department) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is using its discretion to temporarily not enforce certain requirements within the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service (ES) regulations.

To disseminate the U.S. Department of Education (ED), Office of Career Technical and Adult Education’s (OCTAE’s) Program Memorandum 26-3 to the public workforce system. Memorandum 26-3 outlines practical strategies for states to support a unified talent development system that seamlessly connects secondary education, postsecondary education, workforce training, and employment, by aligning activities under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, reauthorized as the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V).

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to announce the cancellation of several Training and Employment Guidance Letters (TEGLs) and TENs.

To issue the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL or Department) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Literacy Framework as a resource for program design and encourage expanded AI literacy training across the public workforce and education systems.

To provide Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) grant award recipients and stakeholders with information about how a temporary suspension of Federal Government services impacts the execution of ETA and OCTAE funded programs and services.  

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to announce that the U.S. Department of Labor’s (Department) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) published a final rule, Wagner-Peyser Act Staffing, Delay of Merit Staffing Compliance Date (91 FR 2486, January 21, 2026), which delays by one year the date by which State grantees must comply with the regulatory requirements in the 2023 Wagner-Peyser Act Staffing Final Rule for States to use State merit staff to deliver services in the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service (ES). The delay applies only to the State merit staffing requirement and does not modify other provisions adopted in the 2023 Wagner-Peyser Act Staffing Final Rule.

To ensure states are aware of the Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program that reflects the military pay increase effective January 1, 2026.

To publish Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 state-level Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments (RESEA) outcome payment performance targets for the reemployment and reduced Unemployment Insurance (UI) duration of RESEA participants and to provide states with a midyear analysis of their performance levels compared against these targets.

To provide ETA grant award recipients and stakeholders with information about how a temporary suspension of Federal Government services impacts the execution of ETA-funded programs and services.

Consistent with Joint WIOA Final Rule requirements, the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education (the Departments) have determined it is appropriate and reasonable in PY 2024 for the:

• U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to assess performance for five performance indicators under WIOA title I core programs and three performance indicators under the Employment Service (referred to as “WIOA title III”) core program;

• U.S. Department of Education (ED) to assess performance for five performance indicators under the Vocational Rehabilitation (“WIOA title IV”) core program; 

• U.S. Department of Education (ED) to assess performance for two performance indicators under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (“WIOA title II”) core program; and

• Departments to delay assessing performance for the purpose of imposing sanctions for the remaining performance indicators in the WIOA title II core program to provide for the orderly transition from the requirements of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) to those of WIOA, as permitted under section 503(a) of WIOA.

The Departments’ determinations, as will be described more fully herein, are consistent with the phased-in approach to performance assessments described in Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 11-19, Change 2 issued on January 6, 2025.