[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 225 (Thursday, November 21, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69878-69879]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-27934]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-82,697]


AT&T Corporation, a Subsidiary of AT&T Inc., Business Billing 
Customer Care, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Notice of Affirmative 
Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration

    By application dated July 8, 2013, the Communication Workers of 
America Union, Local 13550, requested administrative reconsideration of 
the negative determination regarding workers' eligibility to apply for 
Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) applicable to workers and former 
workers of AT&T Corporation, a subsidiary of AT&T Inc., Business 
Billing Customer Care, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (subject firm). The 
determination was issued on June 6, 2013. The Department's Notice of 
determination was published in the Federal Register on July 2, 2013 (78 
FR 39776). Workers at the subject firm were engaged in activities 
related to the supply of billing inquiry and billing dispute resolution 
services.
    The negative determination was based on the Department's findings, 
with respect to Section 222(a)(2)(A)(ii) of the Trade Act of 1974, as 
amended (the Act), of no increased imports, during the relevant period, 
of services like or directly competitive with those supplied by the 
subject workers.
    With respect to Section 222(a)(2)(B) of the Act, the initial 
investigation revealed that the subject firm has not shifted the supply 
of services like or directly competitive with the billing inquiry and 
billing dispute resolution services supplied by the workers to a 
foreign country or acquired the supply of like or directly competitive 
services from a foreign country.
    Rather, the initial investigation confirmed that the worker 
separations

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are attributable to a shift of the services supplied by Business 
Billing Customer Care to other locations within the United States.
    With respect to Section 222(b)(2) of the Act, the initial 
investigation revealed that the subject firm is not a Supplier to, or 
act as a Downstream Producer to, a firm that employed a group of 
workers who received a certification of eligibility under Section 
222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. 2272(a).
    Finally, the initial investigation revealed that the group 
eligibility requirements under Section 222(e) of the Act have not been 
satisfied because the workers' firm has not been publicly identified by 
name by the International Trade Commission as a member of a domestic 
industry in an investigation resulting in an affirmative finding of 
serious injury, market disruption, or material injury, or threat 
thereof.
    The request for reconsideration alleges that the subject firm has 
shifted billing services, ordering services, and/or customer support 
services to Slovakia, Mexico, India, and/or the Philippines. The 
petitioner also supplied additional information in regard to employment 
figures at the aforementioned locations.
    The Department has carefully reviewed the request for 
reconsideration and the existing record, and will conduct further 
investigation to determine if the workers meet the eligibility 
requirements of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the application, I conclude that the claim 
is of sufficient weight to justify reconsideration of the U.S. 
Department of Labor's prior decision. The application is, therefore, 
granted.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 23rd day of October, 2013.
Del Min Amy Chen,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 2013-27934 Filed 11-20-13; 8:45 am]
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