This Training and Employment Notice (TEN) serves as a reminder to states of the importance of ensuring that duplication of services is not occurring as a result of co-enrolling participants in the WIA and Wagner-Peyser programs.

To announce upcoming webinars that will be held the week of July 20, 2009, to provide information on implementing the guidance set forth in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-09-21, Implementing Guidance for the Reports on Use of Funds Pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

To inform and encourage American Job Center staff and State Workforce Agencies to use the Federal Bonding Program as an employer incentive when providing job placement services to assist ex-offenders and other at-risk job seekers. States may use Workforce Investment Act (WIA) funds and their own resources to supplement Federal funding to provide these services.

This notice announces and solicits nominees for a UI Benefit Financing Seminar to be held October 27-30, 2009, in Alexandria, Va.

To provide information and expand awareness of the expiration of the HCTC Program on January 1, 2014, and to advise Cooperating State Agencies (CSAs) in assisting job seekers and workers.

To announce the Recovery and Reemployment Research Conference to be held September 15-16, 2009 at the L’Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C., and to encourage participation by the workforce community of policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and federal partners.

To announce two new UI-ICON applications developed in response to: 1) provisions of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 for overpayment recoveries; and 2) provisions of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011 related to employer charges when employers fail to respond timely or adequately to requests for information.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on February 17, 2009. The Recovery Act is intended to preserve and create jobs, promote the nation’s economic recovery, and assist those most impacted by the recession. Under the Recovery Act, Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) will receive funding to improve the energy efficiency of public housing units across the country. On May 26th Secretary Shaun Donovan of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued a joint letter announcing the establishment of a pilot program to link public housing residents with their local Workforce Investment Board (WIB) and its One Stop Career System. This notice is intended to alert the workforce investment system to the partnership between HUD and the Department of Labor (DOL) and to be prepared to work with representatives from local Public Housing Agencies and connect public housing residents to One Stop Career Centers.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of the final report titled Assessment of the Workforce System’s Implementation of the Veterans’ Priority of Service Provision of the Jobs for Veterans Act of 2002.

To promote innovative recommendations by the Secretary of Labor’s Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship (ACA) on the use of Registered Apprenticeship as a critical and timely solution to the nation’s workforce, economic, and education challenges; and to encourage the state, regional, and local leaders and the public workforce system to utilize the vision report as a resource for supporting apprenticeship opportunities in their own communities.