[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 14 (Thursday, January 22, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3354-3355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1466]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-33,767; TA-W-33,767G; TA-W-33,767H]
Fruit of the Loom; Martin Mills, Inc. D/B/A St. Martinville
Mills; Including Former Employees of Jeanerette Mills St. Martinville,
Louisiana; Jackson Distribution Center; Division of Sherman Warehouse
Corporation Jackson, Mississippi; Wadesboro Warehouse; Division of
Martin Mills, Incorporated Wadesboro, North Carolina; Amended
Certification Regarding Eligibility to Apply for Worker Adjustment
Assistance
In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 USC
2273) the Department of Labor issued a Notice of Certification
Regarding Eligibility to Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance on
August 29, 1997, applicable to workers of Fruit of the Loom, Martin
Mills, Inc., located in St. Martinville, Louisiana. The notice was
published in the Federal Register on September 30, 1997 (62 FR 51152).
The certification was amended on September 14, 1997 and again on
December 1, 1997, to include Martin Mills, Incorporated in St.
Martinville, Louisiana is doing business as St. Martinville Mills, and
to cover the workers of the subject firm whose wages were reported
under the separate Unemployment Insurance tax account
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for Jeanerette Mills, Jeanerette, Louisiana.
The notices of amended certifications were published in the Federal
Register on September 30, 1997 (62 FR 51155) and December 10, 1997 (62
FR 65099) respectively.
At the request of the company, the Department reviewed the
certification for workers of the subject firm. The company reports that
worker separations occurred at the Jackson Distribution Center,
Jackson, Mississippi and the Wadesboro Warehouse, Wadesboro, North
Carolina when they both closed in November 1997. The workers at both
the Jackson Distribution Center and the Wadesboro Warehouse were
involved in the warehouse, repacking and distribution of T-shirts,
briefs, boxers and A-shirts manufactured by Fruit of the Loom.
The intent of the Department's certification is to include all
workers of Fruit of the Loom adversely affected by increased imports of
underwear.
The amended notice applicable to A-AW-33,767 is hereby issued as
follows:
All workers of Fruit of the Loom, Martin Mills, Inc., doing
business as St. Martinville Mills, including former employees of
Jeanerette Mills, St. Martinville, Louisiana (TA-W-33,767) and
Jackson Distribution Center, Division of Sherman Warehouse
Corporation, Jackson, Mississippi (TA-W-33,767G) and Wadesboro
Warehouse Warehouse, Division of Martin Mills, Incorporated,
Wadesboro, North Carolina (TA-W-33,767H), who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after August 14, 1996, are
eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the
Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 11th day of January 1998.
Grant D. Beale,
Acting Director, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 98-1466 Filed 1-21-98; 8:45 am]
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