To announce the release and availability of seven ETA Occasional Papers prepared by doctoral and post-doctoral students with competitively awarded funding as part of the ETA Research Papers Program.

To announce the intent to publish the ETA-9171 Eligible Training Provider (ETP) Performance Report results submitted October 1, 2020 to the Training Provider Results website. ETA anticipates launching the website in December 2020. This notice provides information to states and eligible training providers about their requirements and responsibilities to comply with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) statute.

To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper: Examining a New Model for Prisoner Re-Entry Services: the Evaluation of Beneficiary Choice.

To encourage the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) Section 166-Indian and Native American Youth Program grantees to partner with public and tribal land management agencies within the U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture in an effort to increase work experience opportunities for Indian and Native American youth on public and tribal lands.

The information in this notice is intended to assist the public workforce system in better understanding the key elements of credentials and identifying credentials that help individuals acquire and leverage the skills needed for quality in-demand jobs that meet the needs of the business community.

This Training and Employment Notice (TEN) serves to issue a follow-up announcement of the Building the Next Generation On-the-Job-Training (OJT) Toolkit. The OJT Toolkit is a compendium of policies, templates, and promising practices to support state workforce agencies and local OJT providers who are beginning to implement OJT or who are enhancing their OJT efforts. Since the initial announcement, ETA has continued to add resources such as the Quick Start Action Planner. The website can be accessed at https://ojttoolkit.workforce3one.org/. 

To announce a project spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (CFBNP) supporting the efforts of community-based and faith-based Job Clubs, and to encourage workforce leaders to develop collaborations between the workforce investment system and community-based and faith-based job clubs aimed at improving the quality and quantity of employment and training services to job seekers and unemployed individuals.

To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper titled Findings from a Study of One-Stop Self-Services: A Case-Study Approach

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to advise States of the availability of a CARES Act Implementation Checklist, developed by the Department of Labor's (Department) Employment and Training Administration (ETA), for use by States to ensure they have systems and procedures in place to properly administer the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) programs enacted in Title II, CARES Act.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to announce changes to the TAA Program regulations as part of the implementation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2015 (TAARA 2015), title IV of the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 (Pub. L. 114-27). The updated regulations reduce regulatory burden by modernizing, simplifying, and clarifying state administration of the TAA Program.