94-26409. Philips Lighting Company, Philips Electronics North American, Washington, PA; Notice of Negative Determination on Reconsideration

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
[NAFTA-00160]

 

Philips Lighting Company, Philips Electronics North American, 
Washington, PA; Notice of Negative Determination on Reconsideration

    On September 6, 1994, the Department issued an Affirmative 
Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration for workers and 
former workers of the subject firm. This notice was published in the 
Federal Register on September 23, 1994 (59 FR 48914).
    Counsel for the workers claim that the worker group eligibility 
test is met for the Washington workers because the workers had a 
reduced demand for their warehousing services from Philips's Fairmont 
plant which was certified for TAA.
    Workers providing a service are certifiable only in very limited 
circumstances which were explained in the Department's initial negative 
determination. The certification circumstances are that the worker 
separations must be caused by a reduced demand for their services from 
a parent or controlling firm whose workers produce an article and who 
are currently under a certification for TAA.
    Findings on reconsideration show that Washington is not a source 
distribution center that warehouses finished products from a certain 
plant but is a field service distribution center (emphasis supplied) 
which warehouses inventory based on forecasted customer orders.
    Accordingly, the Fairmont certification (TA-W-29,343) which was 
based on company imports would not have adversely affected workers at 
the Washington facility since the products warehoused at Washington 
were based on forecasted customer orders.
    The reconsideration findings also show that only a very small 
amount of Washington's inventory originated from Fairmont.
    Other findings show that the product previously warehoused in 
Washington is being stocked at Mountaintop, Pennsylvania; Roselle, 
Illinois and Atlanta, Georgia.

Conclusion

    After reconsideration, I affirm the original notice of negative 
determination of eligibility to apply for transitional adjustment 
assistance to workers and former workers of Philips Lighting Company, 
Philips, Electronics North American in Washington, Pennsylvania.

    Signed at Washington, D.C, this 17th day of October, 1994.
Victor J. Trunzo,
Program Manager, Policy, and Reemployment Services, Office of Trade 
Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 94-26409 Filed 10-24-94; 8:45 am]
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