May 07, 2009 TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT GUIDANCE LETTER NO. 20-08 Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities Program Allotments for Program Year (PY) 2009; Additional PY 2009 Funding from WIA Section 173(e) for Adult/Dislocated Worker Activities for Eligible States; Final Wagner-Peyser Act Allotments for PY 2009; Workforce Information Grants to States for PY 2009; and Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Allotments for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 April 30, 2009
ETA announces today in the Federal Register the
information collection request for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This will aggregate the participant
counts for the Workforce Investment Act Title 1B, Wagner-Peyser Act,National Emergency Grants, and Reemployment
Service Grants. Comments are due by May 14, 2009. OMB approval has been requested by May 20, 2009.
March 31, 2009
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has notified ETA of the approval of the extension (without change) of the
LERS forms in 1205 0240(ETA 200-VETS, VETS 200A, VETS 200B, VETS 200C,
ETA 9002A, ETA 9002B, ETA 9002C, ETA 9002D, and ETA 9002E) associated with this collection through March, 31, 2012
March 16, 2009 "WISPR (Workforce Investment Streamlined Performance
Reporting) System is Suspended for PY 2009." WISPR implementation has been suspended for Program Year
(PY) 2009 because of the challenge posed by the significant role the workforce investment system will play in the
President’s economic recovery plan. ETA’s top priority will be working with our partners and
stakeholders to meet the information and reporting needs associated with implementation of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (ARRA). States that are not demonstration states, but are prepared to begin full implementation on
July 1, 2009, should work through their Regional Administrator to coordinate implementation with ETA’s
national office. March 5, 2009 TEGL 13-08 The Employment and Training
Administration (ETA) has provided states and outlying areas with stimulus allotments under the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 to supplement Program Year (PY) 2008 allotments for WIA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker
and Youth, Wagner-Peyser and Reemployment Services.
Federal Register Notice March 4, 2009
American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA): TEN 30-08 is an overview of the Employment and
Training Administration's implementation strategy for Workforce Investment Act and Wagner-Peyser funding under the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and includes a reporting timeline of late spring, 2009.
February 20, 2009
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) has announced in the February 20, 2009 FEDERAL REGISTER that it is seeking
public comment on the extension (without change) of the forms (ETA 200-VETS, VETS 200A, VETS 200B, VETS 200C, ETA
9002A, ETA 9002B, ETA 9002C, ETA 9002D, and ETA 9002E) associated with this collection. February 20, 2009
The USDOL Workforce System has served over seven million
African Americans in the four quarters ending September 30, 2008. For more information on National African American
History Month,
click here February 6, 2009
National Wear Red DayThe Workforce Investment Act has served almost
1.1 million women
over the past three years
January 14, 2009 TEGL 9-08, Negotiating Performance Goals for the Workforce Investment Act Ttile IB Programs and Wagner-Peyser Act Funded Activities for Program Year 2009.
December 22, 2008
The Veteran’s Employment and Training Service (VETS) of the Department of Labor has issued a final rule to implement priority of service in qualified job training programs prescribed in section 2(a)(1)of the Jobs for Veterans Act (JVA). The final rule will become effective on January 19, 2009. USDOL News Release
December 16, 2008
A Notice of Action from OMB has been provided regarding the extension of the TRADE Act Participant Report (TAPR) for an extension without change of a currently approved collection. This extension is through December 31, 2011.
December 12, 2008 TEGL 07-08 ETA Provides Instructions for WIA and Wagner-Peyser Act State Planning and Waiver Requests for Year Five of the Strategic Five-Year State Plan (PY 2009)
December 3, 2008
ETA Publishes Planning Guidance for Both Stand-Alone and the Unified Strategic State Plan and Plan Modifications for WIA Title I and Wagner-Peyser Act
November 13, 2008 TEGL 5-08 USDOL announces the guidance for states regarding the collection and use of social security numbers for persons accessing the workforce investment act programs and other workforce services
October 29, 2008
Department Issues Final Ruleto Update Regulations that Implement the National Apprenticeship Act of 1937; Schedules October 30 Webinar to Review Changes. Also see Department Apprenticeship Regulations
October 2, 2008
The following Workforce Investment Streamlined Performance Reporting (WISPR) documents (Forms 9131, 9132 and 9133 and WISRD) have been approved by OMB (1205-0469) for a potential implementation date of July 1, 2009. This approval marks the beginning of several changes to workforce reporting. These forms will be for use by all grantees administering Wagner-Peyser, Veterans Employment and Training Service, Workforce Investment Act Title IB, National Emergency Grants, and Trade Adjustment Assistance programs funded by the United States Department of Labor (USDOL). The primary purpose of this new reporting system is to:
Establish a standardized set of data elements, definitions, and specifications that can be used to describe the characteristics, activities, and outcomes of job seeker and employer customers served through the One-Stop delivery system;
Facilitate the collection and reporting of valid, consistent, and complete information on job seekers and employer customers in order to support the overall management, evaluation, and continuous improvement of workforce programs at the local, state, and federal levels; and
Reduce duplicate record keeping by allowing grantees administering multiple USDOL-funded workforce programs to utilize a single set of data specifications and formats to report on a job seeker’s and employer’s interaction with the One-Stop delivery system.
Training on implementation of the WISPR system will be rolled out during Program Year 2008
September 25, 2008 TEGL 14-00, Change 2 To provide additional guidance to the States about the WIA Annual Report Narrative and update procedures for submission of the report to the Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
September 22, 2008
National Employ Older Workers Week. For more than 40 years, The USDOL’s Senior Community Service Employment Program has promoted the value of older workers and helped them find productive jobs. The program is operated at the local level by 18 national grantees and 56 state and territorial agencies.
September 3, 2008 TEN 9-08 To remind the workforce investment system of the performance reporting requirements and associated timelines for submitting data validation results for the WIA Title 1B Programs and the Wagner-Peyser Program including Veterans, National Farmworker Jobs Program and the Trade Act programs.
August 27, 2008 TEGL 2-08 Updates the PY 2007 Table of Weights for Use in Calculating State-Level American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Scores for the Participant and Employer Customer Satisfaction Surveys. This TEGL also alerts States to the possibility of new customer survey plans for PY 2008.
August 20, 2008 TEGL 1-08 To request Area of Substantial Unemployment (ASU) designations in each state as defined in the WIA in order to allot funds under the Act for the period beginning July 1, 2009.
August 18, 2008
Data Validation Software, DRVS 7.1, is designed for PY07 annual reporting and validation and for PY08 quarterly reporting. States are advised to create backups of prior databases before importing new PY07 data into the software.
August 6, 2008
Webinar Invitation for a Program Year (PY) 2007 Performance Reporting Discussion. Representatives from the Employment and Training Administration's Office of Performance and Technology, Social Policy Research Associates, and Mathematica Policy Research will discuss the upcoming PY 2007 annual reporting requirements for WIA and quarterly reporting for Wagner-Peyser and Jobs for Veterans' State Grants. The Webinar will address reporting requirements, deadlines, and areas of particular concern in the submission of the WIA annual report and WIA standardized record data (WIASRD). The Webinar will also include a review of the Enterprise Business Support System.
August 1, 2008
Posted today in the Federal Register is the requested extension for the following reporting packages:
July 17, 2008
ETA Seeks Extension of Prisoner Reentry Initiative (PRI) Reporting System in the July 17 FEDERAL REGISTER.
The Employment and Training Administration is seeking an extension of a currently approved information collection system -- Prisoner Reentry Initiative (PRI) Reporting System. Comments are due by September 15. For more information on this initiative, please click here: Prisoner Reentry Initiative Web Site
June 24, 2008
The U.S. Department of Labor is assisting in the recovery efforts in the Midwest communities affected by this season's floods. For general questions and assistance, please contact DOL's National Contact Center at 1-866-4-USA-DOL (1-866-487-2365). Click here for Midwest Flood Recovery Assistance
June 23, 2008
Notification that four Employment and Training Administration (ETA) information collection requests, including the Workforce Investment Streamlined Performance Reporting (WISPR) system, were being transmitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for final approval was published in the June 18, 2008 Federal Register. To see the WISPR documents transmitted to OMB for final approval, click here.
June 18, 2008
On June 18, the DOL announced in the Federal Register the submission of the following public information collection requests (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act:
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Facilitation of Claimant Reemployment
This information is collected at the state level to determine the percentage of individuals who become reemployed in the calendar quarter subsequent to the quarter in which they received their first UI payment.
Unemployment Insurance Data Validation Program
This program requires States to operate a system for ascertaining the validity (adherence to Federal reporting requirements) of specified unemployment insurance (UI) data they submit to ETA on certain reports they are required to submit monthly or quarterly.
Non Production Questionnaire (Trade Adjustment)
Information on the Form ETA-9118 is required in order to make a determination on Trade Adjustment Assistance petitions filed on behalf of service workers in accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Act of 2002.
Workforce Investment Streamlined performance Reporting System (WISPR)
This system was previously called EMILE and has had two previous information requests listed at: (qv. July 16, 2004 FR notice and November 6, 2006 FR Notice)
The WISPR System replaces the reporting and recordkeeping requirements of 7 Employment and Training programs. The goal is to ensure that the workforce system is clearly focused on results, which will help ensure that the system's jobseeker and employer customers are effectively served.
May 21, 2008 TEGL 20-01 Change 6 This guidance letter updates the procedures that states should follow to apply for the WIA Section 503 Incentive Grants based on PY 2006 performance.
May 15, 2008TEGL 25-07
Planning Guidance and Instructions for Submission of a Two-Year Strategic Plan for the Indian and Native American (INA), Section 166 program for Program Years (PY) 2008–2009; applying the Native American Talent and Economic Development (NATED) framework.
May 15, 2008 TEN 41-07 A notice has been placed in the May 5 FEDERAL REGISTER for public comment on the WIA/Wagner-Peyser Act State Planning Guidances for Program Year (PY) 2009, and notify States of planned consultations for the development of Planning Guidances for PY 2010 and subsequent years.
May 13, 2008
In observance of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, ETA has charted those Asian Pacific Americans who have been served by the ETA programs in the four quarters ending December 31, 2007.
May 13, 2008
In recognition of Veterans and the upcoming Memorial Day observance, ETA has charted the Veterans who have been served by ETA programs in the four quarters ending December 31, 2007.
May 13, 2008
ETA has posted the Quarterly Workforce System Resultsfor the second quarter program year and first quarter fiscal year period ending December 31, 2007.
May 9, 2008
The state of New Hampshire’s Department of Economic Security (NHES) has re-joined the Wage Record Interchange System (WRIS). On behalf of the Department, the WRIS Data Sharing Agreement (as amended April 9, 2008) was signed by Mr. Richard S. Brothers, Commissioner. Membership in the WRIS now stands at forty-nine (49) states and the District of Columbia. Through participation, states have a robust overview of the effectiveness of their workforce investment programs, and are able to report more comprehensive outcomes against their performance measures.
April 30, 2008
The state of Tennessee’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development has re-joined the Wage Record Interchange System (WRIS). On behalf of the Department, the WRIS Data Sharing Agreement (as amended April 9, 2008) was signed by Mr. Donald Ingram, Administrator of the Division of Employment Security, and by Ms. Susan Cowden, Administrator of the Division of Workforce Development. Membership in the WRIS now stands at forty-nine (49) states, including the District of Columbia. Through participation, states have a robust overview of the effectiveness of their workforce investment programs, and are able to report more comprehensive outcomes against their performance measures.
April 23, 2008
The Department of Labor, in collaboration with the Department of Education, announces today in the Federal Register that eight states are eligible to apply for Workforce Investment Act (WIA) (Pub. L. 105-220, 29 U.S.C. 2801 et seq.) incentive awards authorized by section 503 of the WIA. The eight eligible states must submit their applications for incentive funding to the Department of Labor by June 9, 2008.
April 16, 2008
The Federal Research Evaluation Database has been updated to include the PY2006 WIASRD data. The Federal Research and Evaluation Database (FRED) enables analysis of the Workforce Investment Act Standardized Record Data (WIASRD), which is data annually submitted by states on WIA exiters' demographic characteristics, the services they received, and the outcomes they achieved after exit.
April 9, 2008
The Wage Record Interchange System (WRIS) Data Sharing Agreement has been amended in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Agreement. All 49 parties to the WRIS Agreement (47 states, the District of Columbia, and ETA) concurred in the three ‘second-round' amendments and technical correction. The WRIS Data Sharing Agreement (as amended April 9, 2008) incorporates the amended language and is available on ETA’s Web site at: http://www.doleta.gov/performance/WRIS.cfm
March 31, 2008 March 31 FEDERAL REGISTER ETA seeks comments on a proposed data collection which addresses qualitative information to be obtained through on-site, unstructured interviews with representatives in each WIRED region. Data to be collected includes information regarding the regional context, goals, planning, structure, partnerships, collaboration, activities, funding, challenges, innovations, approaches for measuring success, and sustainability.
March 28, 2008
The state of Connecticut has re-joined the Wage Record Interchange System (WRIS). The WRIS Data Sharing Agreement was signed by Commissioner Patricia H. Mayfield on behalf of Connecticut’s Department of Labor. Mr. Roger Therrien, Director of the Research Division, and Mr. George M. Wentworth, Director of Program Policy, will serve as the designated WRIS contacts. Forty-eight (48) states and the District of Columbia are now members of the WRIS. Through participation, states have a robust overview of the effectiveness of their workforce investment programs, and are able to report more comprehensive outcomes against their performance measures.
March 25, 2008 TEGL 23-07 Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities Program Allotments for Program Year (PY) 2008; Additional PY 2008 Funding from WIA Section 173(e) for Adult/Dislocated Worker Activities for Eligible States; Final Wagner-Peyser Act Allotments for PY 2008; Workforce Information Grants to States for PY 2008; and Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Allotments for Fiscal Year (FY) 2008.
