Employment & Training Administration Issues Determinations on Eligibility for Worker Adjustment Assistance

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WASHINGTON, May 6 -- The U.S. Department of Labor published the following notice in the Federal Register from the Employment and Training Administration:

Notice of Determinations Regarding Eligibility To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance and Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance

A Notice by the Employment and Training Administration on 05/06/2014

Publication Date: Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Agencies: Department of Labor

Employment and Training Administration

Entry Type: Notice

Document Citation: 79 FR 25893

Page: 25893 -25894 (2 pages)

Document Number: 2014-10258

Shorter URL: https://federalregister.gov/a/2014-10258

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2273) the Department of Labor herein presents summaries of determinations regarding eligibility to apply for trade adjustment assistance for workers (TA-W) number and alternative trade adjustment assistance (ATAA) by (TA-W) number issued during the period of April 14, 2014 through April 18, 2014.

In order for an affirmative determination to be made for workers of a primary firm and a certification issued regarding eligibility to apply for worker adjustment assistance, each of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222(a) of the Act must be met.

I. Section (a)(2)(A) all of the following must be satisfied:

A. A significant number or proportion of the workers in such workers' firm, or an appropriate subdivision of the firm, have become totally or partially separated, or are threatened to become totally or partially separated;

B. the sales or production, or both, of such firm or subdivision have decreased absolutely; and

C. increased imports of articles like or directly competitive with articles produced by such firm or subdivision have contributed importantly to such workers' separation or threat of separation and to the decline in sales or production of such firm or subdivision; or

II. Section (a)(2)(B) both of the following must be satisfied:

A. a significant number or proportion of the workers in such workers' firm, or an appropriate subdivision of the firm, have become totally or partially separated, or are threatened to become totally or partially separated;

B. there has been a shift in production by such workers' firm or subdivision to a foreign country of articles like or directly competitive with articles which are produced by such firm or subdivision; and

C. One of the following must be satisfied:

1. The country to which the workers' firm has shifted production of the articles is a party to a free trade agreement with the United States;

2. the country to which the workers' firm has shifted production of the articles to a beneficiary country under the Andean Trade Preference Act, African Growth and Opportunity Act, or the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act; or

3. there has been or is likely to be an increase in imports of articles that are like or directly competitive with articles which are or were produced by such firm or subdivision.

Also, in order for an affirmative determination to be made for secondarily affected workers of a firm and a certification issued regarding eligibility to apply for worker adjustment assistance, each of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222(b) of the Act must be met.

(1) A significant number or proportion of the workers in the workers' firm or an appropriate subdivision of the firm have become totally or partially separated, or are threatened to become totally or partially separated;

(2) the workers' firm (or subdivision) is a supplier or downstream producer to a firm (or subdivision) that employed a group of workers who received a certification of eligibility to apply for trade adjustment assistance benefits and such supply or production is related to the article that was the basis for such certification; and

(3) either--

(A) the workers' firm is a supplier and the component parts it supplied for the firm (or subdivision) described in paragraph (2) accounted for at least 20 percent of the production or sales of the workers' firm; or

(B) a loss or business by the workers' firm with the firm (or subdivision) described in paragraph (2) contributed importantly to the workers' separation or threat of separation.

In order for the Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance to issue a certification of eligibility to apply for Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance (ATAA) for older workers, the group eligibility requirements of Section 246(a)(3)(A)(ii) of the Trade Act must be met.

1. Whether a significant number of workers in the workers' firm are 50 years of age or older.

2. Whether the workers in the workers' firm possess skills that are not easily transferable.

3. The competitive conditions within the workers' industry (i.e., conditions within the industry are adverse).

Affirmative Determinations for Worker Adjustment Assistance

The following certifications have been issued. The date following the company name and location of each determination references the impact date for all workers of such determination.

None.

Affirmative Determinations for Worker Adjustment Assistance and Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance

The following certifications have been issued. The date following the company name and location of each determination references the impact date for all workers of such determination.

The following certifications have been issued. The requirements of Section 222(a)(2)(A) (increased imports) and Section 246(a)(3)(A)(ii) of the Trade Act have been met.

85,058, Segue Manufacturing Services LLC., Lowell, Massachusetts. January 14, 2014.

85,176, Scott DC Power Products, Alamogordo, New Mexico. March 24, 2013.

85,177, Advanced Motors and Drives, Inc. East Syracuse. New York. March 24, 2013.

85,188, Gentex Optics, Inc.Carbondale, Pennsylvania. March 28, 2013.

85,192, Walter Kidde Portable Equipment, Inc., Pittsfield, Maine. March 31, 2013.

85,212, IMPCO Technologies, Inc., Sterling Heights, Michigan. April 7, 2013.

85,235, Victaulic, Leland, North Carolina. April 15, 2013.

Negative Determinations for Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance

In the following cases, it has been determined that the requirements of 246(a)(3)(A)(ii) have not been met for the reasons specified.

None.

Negative Determinations for Worker Adjustment Assistance and Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance Back to Top

In the following cases, the investigation revealed that the eligibility criteria for worker adjustment assistance have not been met for the reasons specified.

Because the workers of the firm are not eligible to apply for TAA, the workers cannot be certified eligible for ATAA.

The investigation revealed that criteria (a)(2)(A)(I.B.) (Sales or production, or both, did not decline) and (a)(2)(B)(II.B.) (shift in production to a foreign country) have not been met.

85,123, Elsevier, Inc., San Diego, California.

The investigation revealed that criteria (a)(2)(A)(I.C.) (increased imports) and (a)(2)(B)(II.B.) (shift in production to a foreign country) have not been met.

85,093, Specialty Foods Group, Inc., Chicago, Illinois.

85,109, Sharp Manufacturing Co. of America (SMCA), Memphis, Tennessee.

The workers' firm does not produce an article as required for certification under Section 222 of the Trade Act of 1974.

85,022, Intrepid Potash Inc., Denver, Colorado.

85,119, Hewlett Packard Company, Palo Alto, California.

85,138, ARRIS Group, Inc., State College, Pennsylvania.

85,166, Hartford Fire Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut.

85,174, AT&T Corp., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Determinations Terminating Investigations of Petitions for Worker Adjustment Assistance Back to Top

After notice of the petitions was published in the Federal Register and on the Department's Web site, as required by Section 221 of the Act (19 U.S.C. 2271), the Department initiated investigations of these petitions.

The following determinations terminating investigations were issued because the petitioner has requested that the petition be withdrawn.

85,136, Startek USA, Inc. Jonesboro, Alaska.

85,162, Kuehne & Nagel, Inc., Jersey City, New Jersey.

85,162A, Kuehne & Nagel, Inc., Naugatuck, Connecticut.

85,168, ICON Clinical Research, Sugar Land, Texas.

I hereby certify that the aforementioned determinations were issued during the period of April 14, 2014 through April 18, 2014. These determinations are available on the Department's Web site tradeact/taa/taa_search_form.cfm under the searchable listing of determinations or by calling the Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance toll free at 888-365-6822.

Signed at Washington, DC this 24th day of April 2014.

Michael W. Jaffe,

Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.

[FR Doc. 2014-10258 Filed 5-5-14; 8:45 am]

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[*Federal RegisterRK 2014-05-06]

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