[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 184 (Thursday, September 23, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 57096]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-2331]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-55,125]


Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services Group, Leased Workers 
Onsite at SR Telecom, Inc., Redmond, WA; Notice of Negative 
Determination on Reconsideration

    On August 10, 2004, the Department issued an Affirmative 
Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration for the workers 
and former workers of the subject firm. The Department's notice was 
published in the Federal Register on August 20, 2004 (69 FR 51718). 
Separated workers are employees of Volt Temporary Services, Volt 
Services Group working onsite at SR Telecom, Inc., Redmond, Washington.
    The Department denied the initial petition because Volt Temporary 
Services, Volt Services Group is not a company that produces an article 
but is a staffing agency that satisfies companies' human resource needs 
by sending temporary workers to fulfill a variety of needs. The initial 
petition was also denied because Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services 
Group was not under a written contractual relationship with SR Telecom, 
Inc., Redmond, Washington.
    In the request for reconsideration, the petitioners allege that the 
Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services Group workers who were assigned 
to SR Telecom, Inc., Redmond, Washington performed assembly work and 
did not perform administrative functions.
    The reconsideration investigation revealed that while Volt 
Temporary Services, Volt Services Group does not produce an article, it 
does place workers in companies that are engaged in production. During 
the reconsideration investigation, it was confirmed that a written 
contract did not exist between Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services 
Group and SR Telecom, Inc., Redmond, Washington.
    A subject company official informed the Department that almost 
seven hundred Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services Group workers were 
placed in assignments in 2003 and over five hundred Volt Temporary 
Services, Volt Services Group workers were placed in assignments in 
2004. Fifteen Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services Group workers were 
placed with SR Telecom, Inc., Redmond, Washington in 2003 and two Volt 
Temporary Services, Volt Services Group workers were placed with SR 
Telecom, Inc., Redmond, Washington in 2004 (one performed 
administrative duties, the other performed warehousing, packing and 
shipping/receiving duties).
    At the time that SR Telecom, Inc., Redmond, Washington closed in 
July 2004, only one Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services Group worker 
was still assigned there. That employee was placed in SR Telecom, Inc., 
Redmond, Washington in 2003 and is currently a permanent employee of 
Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services Group.
    The two Volt Temporary Services, Volt Services Group workers who 
were assigned to SR Telecom, Inc., Redmond, Washington in 2004 ceased 
working there on July 12, 2004, because their assignments naturally 
expired at that time. As such, there were no worker lay-offs during the 
relevant time period.

Conclusion

    After reconsideration, I affirm the original notice of negative 
determination of eligibility to apply for worker adjustment assistance 
for workers and former workers of Volt Temporary Services, Volt 
Services Group, leased workers on-site at SR Telecom, Inc., Redmond, 
Washington.

    Signed in Washington, DC, this 14th day of September, 2004.
Linda G. Poole,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
 [FR Doc. E4-2331 Filed 9-22-04; 8:45 am]
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