Federal Register, Volume 79 Issue 11 (Thursday, January 16, 2014)

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 11 (Thursday, January 16, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2901-2903]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-00680]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

Notice of Determinations Regarding Eligibility To Apply for
Worker Adjustment Assistance

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 by (TA-W) number issued during the period of
December 16, 2013 through December 27, 2013.
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. Under Section 222(a)(2)(A), the following must be satisfied:
(1) A significant number or proportion of the workers in such
workers' firm have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;
(2) the sales or production, or both, of such firm have decreased
absolutely; and
(3) One of the following must be satisfied:
(A) Imports of articles or services like or directly competitive
with articles produced or services supplied by such firm have
increased;
(B) imports of articles like or directly competitive with articles
into which one or more component parts produced by such firm are
directly incorporated, have increased;
(C) imports of articles directly incorporating one or more
component parts produced outside the United States that are like or
directly competitive with imports of articles incorporating one or more
component parts produced by such firm have increased;
(D) imports of articles like or directly competitive with articles
which are produced directly using services supplied by such firm, have
increased; and
(4) the increase in imports contributed importantly to such
workers' separation or threat of separation and to the decline in the
sales or production of such firm; or
II. Section 222(a)(2)(B) all of the following must be satisfied:
(1) A significant number or proportion of the workers in such
workers' firm have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;
(2) One of the following must be satisfied:
(A) There has been a shift by the workers' firm to a foreign
country in the production of articles or supply of services like or
directly competitive with those produced/supplied by the workers' firm;
(B) there has been an acquisition from a foreign country by the
workers' firm of articles/services that are like or directly
competitive with those produced/supplied by the workers' firm; and
(3) the shift/acquisition contributed importantly to the workers'
separation or threat of separation.
In order for an affirmative determination to be made for adversely
affected workers in public agencies 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 public
agency have become totally or partially separated, or are threatened to
become totally or partially separated;
(2) the public agency has acquired from a foreign country services
like or directly competitive with services which are supplied by such
agency; and
(3) the acquisition of services contributed importantly to such
workers' separation or threat of separation.
In order for an affirmative determination to be made for adversely
affected secondary 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(c) of the Act must
be met.
(1) a significant number or proportion of the workers in the
workers' firm have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;
(2) the workers' firm is a Supplier or Downstream Producer to a
firm that employed a group of workers who received a certification of
eligibility under Section 222(a) of the Act, and such supply or
production is related to the article or service that was the basis for
such certification; and
(3) either--
(A) the workers' firm is a supplier and the component parts it
supplied to the firm described in paragraph (2) accounted for at least
20 percent of the production or sales of the workers' firm; or
(B) a loss of business by the workers' firm with the firm described
in paragraph (2) contributed importantly to the workers' separation or
threat of separation.
In order for an affirmative determination to be made for adversely
affected workers in firms identified by the International Trade
Commission and a certification issued regarding eligibility to apply
for worker adjustment assistance, each of the group eligibility
requirements of Section 222(f) of the Act must be met.
(1) the workers' firm is publicly identified by name by the
International Trade Commission as a member of a domestic industry in an
investigation resulting in--
(A) an affirmative determination of serious injury or threat
thereof under section 202(b)(1);
(B) an affirmative determination of market disruption or threat
thereof under section 421(b)(1); or
(C) an affirmative final determination of material injury or threat
thereof under section 705(b)(1)(A) or 735(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of
1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671d(b)(1)(A) and 1673d(b)(1)(A));
(2) the petition is filed during the 1-year period beginning on the
date on which--
(A) a summary of the report submitted to the President by the
International Trade Commission under section 202(f)(1) with respect to
the affirmative

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determination described in paragraph (1)(A) is published in the Federal
Register under section 202(f)(3); or
(B) notice of an affirmative determination described in
subparagraph (1) is published in the Federal Register; and
(3) the workers have become totally or partially separated from the
workers' firm within--
(A) the 1-year period described in paragraph (2); or
(B) notwithstanding section 223(b)(1), the 1-year period preceding
the 1-year period described in paragraph (2).

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

The following certifications have been issued. The requirements of
Section 222(a)(2)(B) (shift in production or services) of the Trade Act
have been met.

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TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date
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83,177............... JP Morgan Chase & Company, Mortgage Florence, SC........ October 28, 2012.
Banking Division, Solicitation
Prework Group.
83,180............... Huber+Suhner, Inc., Huber+Suhner Essex Junction, VT.. October 29, 2012.
North America, Spherion.
83,205............... Brooks Automation, Inc., Polycold Petaluma, CA........ November 6, 2012.
Manufacturing Division, R&D
Technical Services, and Volt
Workforce.
83,217............... Airtex Products L.P., UCI-Fram Fairfield, IL....... November 12, 2012.
Group, Manpower, Employment Plus,
and Unique.
83,222............... Advance Auto Business Support, LLC, Roanoke, VA......... November 18, 2012.
IT Department, Advance Stores
Company, Accenture, Alliance of
Professionals.
83,227............... Avery Products, CCL Industries, Chicopee, MA........ November 19, 2012.
United Personnel, Zero Chaos,
Integration Int'l & Manpower.
83,227A.............. Avery Products, CCL Industries, Holliston, MA....... November 19, 2012.
Inc., Robert Half.
83,230............... IBM Corporation, Global Somers, NY.......... November 19, 2012.
Administration, Manpower.
83,233............... Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems Akron, OH........... December 29, 2013.
Corporation, Meggitt PLC, Kelly
Services.
83,233A.............. Leased Workers and Systems Pros, Akron, OH........... November 20, 2012.
Amotec, and Computer Express,
Inc., Meggitt Aircraft Braking
Systems Corporation.
83,264............... Block and Company, Inc., Bristol Bristol, TN......... December 4, 2012.
Custom Solutions, Kelly Services.
83,269............... Daikin McQuay, Daikin Applied Auburn, NY.......... December 4, 2012.
Americas, Inc., Daikin Industries,
Ltd., ISSI.
83,276............... Windsor USA, LLC, Windsor Group, Hebron, KY.......... December 7, 2012.
Inc., Windsor Service, Inc..
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Negative Determinations for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In the following cases, the investigation revealed that the
eligibility criteria for worker adjustment assistance have not been met
for the reasons specified.
The investigation revealed that the criteria under paragraphs
(a)(2)(A) (increased imports) and (a)(2)(B) (shift in production or
services to a foreign country) of section 222 have not been met.

Determinations Terminating Investigations of Petitions for Worker
Adjustment Assistance

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.

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83,248............... Castle China, LLC.................. New Castle, PA......
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The following determinations terminating investigations were issued
in cases where these petitions were not filed in accordance with the
requirements of 29 CFR 90.11. Every petition filed by workers must be
signed by at least three individuals of the petitioning worker group.
Petitioners separated more than one year prior to the date of the
petition cannot be covered under a certification of a petition under
Section 223(b), and therefore, may not be part of a petitioning worker
group. For one or more of these reasons, these petitions were deemed
invalid.

The following determinations terminating investigations were issued
because the petitioning groups of workers are covered by active
certifications. Consequently, further investigation in these cases
would serve no purpose since the petitioning group of workers cannot be
covered by more than one certification at a time.

I hereby certify that the aforementioned determinations were issued
during the period of December 16, 2013 through December 27, 2013. 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 2nd day of January 2014.
Michael W. Jaffe,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 2014-00680 Filed 1-15-14; 8:45 am]
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