Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 124 (Tuesday, June 28, 2016)

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 124 (Tuesday, June 28, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41997-42001]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-15252]

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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 May
23, 2016 through June 3, 2016.
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 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(b) 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

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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(e) 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 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) not withstanding 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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90,185............... Blair LLC, Orchard Brands Franklin, PA........ January 1, 2014.
Corporation, Call Center.
90,276............... Target Corporation, Accounts Brooklyn Park, MN... January 1, 2014.
Payable and Finance Department.
91,068............... Bombardier Service Corporation..... Colchester, VT...... October 22, 2014.
91,290............... ConAgra Foods, Inc., Enterprise Omaha, NE........... December 24, 2014.
Business Services--OMAHA, IT
Department--OMAHA, etc.
91,368............... Grain Systems, Inc. (GSI), AGCO, Marshall, MI........ January 20, 2015.
Accesspoint, Caresoft Global,
Inc., Manpower, Trillium Staffing,
etc.
91,404............... Qual-Pro Corporation, System One Gardena, CA......... January 27, 2015.
Staffing Specialist and TRC
Staffing Group.
91,484............... Vitron Acquisition LLC, The Atlas Phoenix, AZ......... February 18, 2015.
Group, Hotfoot Recruiters LLC and
Experis US Inc.
91,485............... Sensata Technologies, Inc., FKS Springfield, TN..... February 18, 2015.
Schrader Electronics, Performance
Sensing Division, Staffmark.
91,505............... Walgreens Company, Information Deerfield, IL....... February 1, 2015.
Technology Division, Walgreens
Boots Alliance.
91,505A.............. Walgreens Company, Information Lincolnshire, IL.... February 1, 2015.
Technology Division, Walgreens
Boots Alliance.
91,511............... Technicolor Home Entertainment Olyphant, PA........ February 24, 2015.
Services, FNA Cinram
Manufacturing, LLC, Southeast
Division, Dynamic Staffing, etc.
91,513............... Ball Metal Beverage Container Bristol, VA......... February 24, 2015.
Corp., Ball Corporation, Manpower
and Cortech.
91,514............... Royal Bank of Scotland, Echannels Chicago, IL......... February 24, 2015.
Delivery Team, Global Transactions
Services Division, etc.
91,518............... SABIC US LLC, Specialty Division... Thorndale, PA....... February 25, 2015.
91,520............... Flex Charlotte, Formerly Charlotte, NC....... February 25, 2015.
Flextronics, Global Operations
Division, Flex International, etc.

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91,597............... Plantronics, Inc, Dewinter Group, Santa Cruz, CA...... March 14, 2015.
Inc., Aerotex, and Stephen James
Associates.
91,597A.............. Clarity, Plantronics, Inc.......... Chattanooga, TN..... March 14, 2015.
91,597B.............. Plantronics, Inc., Finance Santa Cruz, CA...... November 6, 2015.
Department, Accounting Group,
Aerotek.
91,601............... Trinity Containers, LLC, Trinity Quincy, IL.......... March 9, 2015.
Industries, Inc.
91,612............... Cartus Corporation, Realogy Danbury, CT......... March 21, 2015.
Holdings, Inc., Division of
Relocation Accounting, Coworx
Staffing.
91,632............... Sanofi-Aventis, US LLC, Industrial Kansas City, MO..... June 28, 2016.
Affairs Division, Sanofi, Sanofi-
Aventis US, Inc.
91,632A.............. Pro-Unlimited, Sanofi-Aventis, US Kansas City, MO..... March 25, 2015.
LLC, Industrial Affairs Division,
Sanofi, etc.
91,662............... Howmet Corporation, Whitehall Whitehall, MI....... April 4, 2015.
Operations, Alcoa, Inc., Contact
Geometric Results, Inc.
91,701............... Clover Technologies, LLC, CAU Ithaca, MI.......... April 11, 2015.
Acquisition, A/K/A Cartridges Are
US.
91,707............... Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hewlett Plano, TX........... April 14, 2015.
Packard, ES ITO Network Delivery.
91,721............... Yellow Pages Digital & Media Indianapolis, IN.... April 21, 2015.
Solutions LLC, Print Division,
Yellow Pages Group Holding (USA).
91,734............... Ralph Lauren Corporation, Greensboro, NC...... April 26, 2015.
Greensboro IT Services,
Distinctive Personnel, etc.
91,738............... International Business Machines Southbury, CT....... April 22, 2015.
Corporation (IBM), Mainframe
Performance and Capacity
Management Services Line, etc.
91,738A.............. International Business Machines Poughkeepsie, NY.... April 22, 2015.
Corporation (IBM), Mainframe
Performance and Capacity
Management Services Line, etc.
91,743............... Datex-Ohmeda, Inc., GE Healthcare.. Madison, WI......... April 26, 2015.
91,753............... Epicor Software Corporation, EGL Austin, TX.......... April 27, 2015.
Holdco, Inc., EAO Computing,
Ruthann Ford, Michael IUPE, etc.
91,753A.............. Epicor Software Corporation, EGL Hyannis, MA......... April 27, 2015.
Holdco, Inc.
91,755............... Kraft Heinz Foods Company, Kraft Allentown, PA....... April 28, 2015.
Heinz Company, Kelly Services.
91,772............... Blount International, Inc., Portland, OR........ September 20, 2015.
Forestry, Lawn, and Garden
Division, Express Employment
Professionals.
91,798............... Eaton Corporation--Hutchinson Hutchinson, KS...... May 11, 2015.
Plant, Industrial Sector,
Hydraulics Division, Eaton
Corporation, Bartech.
91,813............... Xerox, Large Enterprise Operations, Webster, NY......... May 13, 2015.
US Division.
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The following certifications have been issued. The requirements of
Section 222(b) (supplier to a firm whose workers are certified eligible
to apply for TAA) of the Trade Act have been met.

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 criterion under paragraph
(a)(1) or (b)(1) (employment decline or threat of separation) of
section 222 has not been met.

The investigation revealed that the criteria under paragraphs
(a)(2)(A)(i) (decline in sales or production, or both) and (a)(2)(B)
(shift in production or services to a foreign country) of section 222
have not been met.

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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.

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.

The following determinations terminating investigations were issued
because the petitions are the subject of ongoing investigations under
petitions filed earlier covering the same petitioners.

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I hereby certify that the aforementioned determinations were issued
during the period of May 23, 2016 through June 3, 2016. These
determinations are available on the Department's Web site https://www.doleta.gov/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 7th day of June 2016.
Jessica R. Webster
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
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