96-7120. The SERO Company, Inc. Cordele, Georgia; Notice of Negative Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 58 (Monday, March 25, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12105-12106]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-7120]



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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
[TA-W-31,537]


The SERO Company, Inc. Cordele, Georgia; Notice of Negative 
Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration

    By an application dated February 9, 1996, former workers of the 
subject firm requested administrative reconsideration of the 
Department's negative determination regarding worker eligibility to 
apply for trade adjustment assistance. The denial notice was signed on 
January 24, 1996 and published in the Federal Register on February 6, 
1996 (61 FR 4486).
    Pursuant to 29 CFR 90.18(c) reconsideration may be granted under 
the following circumstances:
    (1) If it appears on the basis of facts not previously considered 
that the determination complained of was erroneous;
    (2) if it appears that the determination complained of was based on 
a mistake in the determination of facts not previously considered; or
    (3) if in the opinion of the Certifying Officer, a 
misinterpretation of facts or of the law justified reconsideration of 
the decision.
    The former workers of The Sero Company Inc. requesting 
reconsideration claim that the major customer of the subject firm has 
given its contract to an overseas manufacturing company. Also, 
petitioners claim Sero expanded its company in the Dominican Republic 
because it was more economical for them to produce there. Additionally, 
the petitioners claim that workers were also producing men's sport 
shirts.
    Findings of the investigation show that workers of the subject firm 
performed contract sewing work on men's dress shirts. Sero now cuts a 
reduced level of its own dress shirts in Cordele but sewing work is 
contracted out to another domestic firm.
    Company officials report an insignificant amount of production of 
men's sports shirts in 1995 at Cordele. All production of that product 
has been transferred to an affiliated plant in the Dominican Republic. 
Since the predominant portion of the sewing operations encompassed 
men's dress shirts, the shift in production of men's sports shirts to a 
foreign facility would not form the basis for worker certification.
    Finding show that the contract sewing work at the Cordele plant, 
was for a single customer. The Department surveyed the customer 
regarding its contract work and imports of men's dress shirts. The 
customer reported that foreign contract work declined in 1995 compared 
with 1994 and finished shirts were not imported. The customer reports 
that contract sewing work previously performed by Sero was awarded to 
another domestic facility.

Conclusion

    After review of the application and investigative findings, I 
conclude that there has been no error or misinterpretation of the law 
or of the facts which would justify reconsideration of the Department 
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Labor's prior decision. Accordingly, the application is denied.

    Signed at Washington, D.C. this 12th day of March 1996.
Russell T. Kile,
Acting Program Manager, Policy and Reemployment Services, Office of 
Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 96-7120 Filed 3-22-96; 8:45 am]
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