[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 1 (Friday, January 2, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 114-115]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-32288]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-52,559 and TA-W-52,559A]


Pillowtex Corporation, Bed and Bath Division, Including Leased 
Workers of Corestaff Agency, Rakes Staffing, A & R Agency and Ajilon 
Staffing, Kannapolis, NC; Pillowtex Corporation, New York Design and 
Sales Office, New York, NY; Amended Certification Regarding Eligibility 
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

    In accordance with section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 
2273) the Department of Labor issued a Notice of Certification 
Regarding Eligibility to Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance on 
September 5, 2003, applicable to workers of Pillowtex Corporation, Bed 
and Bath Division, including leased workers of Corestaff Agency, Rakes 
Staffing, A & R Agency, and Ajilon Staffing, Kannapolis, North 
Carolina. The notice was published in the Federal Register on October 
10, 2003 (68 FR 58720).
    At the request of the petitioners, the Department reviewed the 
certification for workers of the subject firm. The workers are engaged 
in the production of sheets.
    The company reports that worker separations occurred at New York 
Design and Sales Office, New York, New York location of the subject 
firm. The New York Design and Sales Office workers provide sales, and 
designing function services for the subject firm's production plant 
located in Kannapolis, North Carolina.
    Based on these findings, the Department is amending the 
certification to include workers of Pillowtex Corporation, New York 
Design and Sales Office, New York, New York.
    The intent of the Department's certification is to include all 
workers of Pillowtex Corporation who were adversely affected by 
increased imports.
    The amended notice applicable to TA-W-52,559 is hereby issued as 
follows:

    All workers of Pillowtex Corporation, Bed and Bath Division, 
Kannapolis, North Carolina and leased workers of Corestaff Agency, 
Rakes Staffing, A & R Agency and

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Ajilon Staffing, Kannapolis, North Carolina producing sheets at 
Fieldcrest Cannon, Inc., a subsidiary of Pillowtex Corporation, Bed 
and Bath Division, Kannapolis, North Carolina (TA-W-52,559) and 
Pillowtex Corporation, New York Design and Sales Office, New York, 
New York (TA-W-52,559A) who became totally or partially separated 
from employment on or after August 15, 2003, through September 5, 
2005, are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under section 
223 of the Trade Act of 1974.


    Signed in Washington, DC this 23rd day of December, 2003.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 03-32288 Filed 12-31-03; 8:45 am]
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