[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 249 (Thursday, December 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 68059]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-32786]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
[TA-W-32, 718, TA-W-32, 718A, and TA-W-32, 718B]


The Olga Company Division of Warnaco, Inc., Fillmore, California; 
The Olga Company Division of Warnaco, Inc., Santa Paula, California; 
The Olga Company Division of Warnaco, Inc., City of Commerce, 
California; Certification Regarding Eligibility To Apply for Worker 
Adjustment Assistance

    In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 USC 
2273) as amended by the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 
(P.L. 100-418), the Department of Labor herein presents the results of 
an investigation regarding certification of eligibility to apply for 
worker adjustment assistance.
    In order the make an affirmative determination and issue a 
certification of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance each of 
the group eligibility requirements of Section 222 of the Act must be 
met. It is determined in this case that all of the requirements have 
been met.
    The investigation was initiated in response to a petition received 
on September 9, 1996, and filed on behalf of workers at The Olga 
Company, Division of Warnaco, Inc., Fillmore, Santa Paula, and City of 
Commerce, California. The workers produce women's intimate apparel.
    Workers at the subject plants were certified eligible for NAFTA 
Transitional Adjustment benefits on August 14, 1996 (NAFTA-01155A and 
01155B).
    Warnaco, Inc., is transferring sewing and finishing work at the 
subject facilities to locations abroad. Apparel formerly sewn and 
finished at the subject plants is being imported from the foreign 
plants into the United States.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the facts obtained in the investigation, I 
conclude that increases of imports of articles like or directly 
competitive with women's intimate apparel produced at The Olga Company, 
Division of Warnaco, Inc., Fillmore, Santa Paula, and City of Commerce, 
California, contributed importantly to the decline in sales or 
production and to the total or partial separation of workers of that 
firm. In accordance with the provisions of the Act, I make the 
following certification:
    All workers of The Olga Company, Division of Warnaco, Inc., 
Fillmore, Santa Paula, and City of Commerce, California, who became 
totally or partially separated from employment on or after July 16, 
1995, through two years from the date of certification, are eligible 
to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade 
Act of 1974.

    Signed in Washington, DC, this 30th day of October, 1996.
Russell T. Kile,
Program Manager, Policy and Reemployment Services, Office of Trade 
Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 96-32786 Filed 12-24-96; 8:45 am]
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