To announce a joint communication from Department of Labor’s (Department) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), along with seven other federal agencies, to state and local governments titled “Resource Leveraging & Service Coordination to Increase Competitive Integrated Employment for Individuals with Disabilities.”

To announce the 2022 SIDES administrative website webinar series, “Moving the Integrity Needle Using SIDES Data” that will be hosted by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) from October 6, 2022, through November 17, 2022.

To remind states of DOL-OIG’s authority under the Inspector General Act (IG Act) (Public Law 95-452) and to strongly encourage states to comply with data requests made by DOL-OIG.

To inform states of a change to the IBIQ schema affecting states connecting to ICON IBIQ via web services.

To announce the publication of multiple RESEA reports and briefs providing information about state implementation of the permanently authorized RESEA program, provision of RESEA services during the COVID-19 pandemic, component-level evidence for reemployment services, and options to consider for future evidence building.

To announce the availability of a BAM Resource Page on Workforce GPS and provide instructions on how to utilize the landing page.

To inform states that the Adjudications: Past, Present, and Future – Virtual Training and Conference is scheduled to be held August 23-25, 2022, from 1pm to 5pm EDT, and to encourage states to have adjudicators and other unemployment insurance (UI) benefits staff participate in the conference.

To announce that on July 1, 2022, ETA will deploy the new ETA Advisory System Website.

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 the second half of FY 2022 must contact an American Job Center (AJC) for assistance in recruiting U.S. workers for their job opportunities. This information is similar to that shared in January 2022 regarding the first half of FY 2022.

To provide a checklist of all currently active ETA advisories as well as a checklist of all ETA advisories rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.