2013-11460. Notice of Determinations Regarding Eligibility To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance
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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 April 8, 2013 through April 12, 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 Start Printed Page 28637a 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 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.
TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date 81,860 Resolute Forest Products, Catawba Mill—aper Machine No. 1, Commercial Printing Papers, etc Catawba, SC August 3, 2011. 82,515 DuPont Teijin Films US LP, E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Teijin, Holdings USA, Allied Barton Security, etc Hopewell, VA February 28, 2012. 82,535 Asteelflash US East Corp., US East, Asteelflash Group Owego, NY March 6, 2012. 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.
TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date 82,249N UnitedHealth Group, United Payment Integrity Operations, On-Site Leased Workers Eden Prairie, MN December 11, 2011. 82,249Y UnitedHealth Group, Optum, Inc., OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions, Provider Data Maintenance Bloomington, MN December 11, 2011. 82,353 Comcast Cable, West Division, Repair Call Service Group Beaverton, OR December 27, 2011. 82,353A Comcast Cable, West Division, Billing Call Service Group Beaverton, OR December 27, 2011. 82,363 XOR Media, Formerly Seachange International Acton, MA January 23, 2012. 82,402 YP Midwest Publishing LLC, Publishing Operations Group, YP Subsidiary Holdings LLC, Zero Chaos Brookfield, WI January 31, 2012. 82,435 Pfizer—Pearl River, Pfizer Global Supply Pearl River, NY April 1, 2013. 82,435A Leased Workers from Atrium Staffing and VisionIT, Working On-Site at Pfizer Pearl River, NY February 7, 2012. 82,485 Nestle Healthcare Nutrition, Inc., Adecco USA St. Louis Park, MN May 5, 2013. 82,516 Micro Contacts, Inc Hicksville, NY February 28, 2012. 82,524 Level 3 Communications, LLC, Iqnavigator, Synergy Services, Horizontal Integration, etc Coudersport, PA March 4, 2012. Start Printed Page 28638 82,531 Apex Tool Group, LLC, Bain Capital, North American Hand Tools Ops, TEC Staffing, Kelly Staffing Springdale, AR March 6, 2012. 82,544 Citigroup Technology, Inc. (CTI), Citigroup Inc., Project Management, Global Tech, Citi Shared, Leased Workers Irving, TX March 7, 2012. 82,558 Abbott Diabetes Care, Abbott, Abbott Technical Support Division, Sykes Enterprises Langhorne, PA March 13, 2012. 82,582 Standard Motor Products, Express Employment Professionals Independence, KS March 20, 2012. 82,583 Chromalloy Gas Turbine, LLC, Los Angeles Division, Sequa Corp Gardena, CA March 20, 2012. 82,591 CIBA Vision Corporation, Novartis Pharmaceutical, Kelly Services, Sargan, Validant and Pharmtech Des Plaines, IL March 22, 2012. 82,595 AIG Global Services, Inc., Service Management Production Operations Livingston, NJ March 25, 2012. 82,602 Wells Fargo & Company, Consumer Lending Group, Non-Phone Credit Bureau, Randstad etc Beaverton, OR March 25, 2012. 82,622 ETI Precision Corp, Elmet Holdings, LLC Gordonsville, TN April 1, 2012. 82,624 Heraeus Materials Technology North America, Heraeus Holding GMBH, Aerotek, Modis Chandler, AZ March 26, 2013. The following certifications have been issued. The requirements of Section 222(c) (supplier to a firm whose workers are certified eligible to apply for TAA) of the Trade Act have been met.
TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date 82,487 Miller Welding & Machine Co., Spherion Staffing Service Brookville, PA February 20, 2012. 82,487A Miller Welding & Machine Co., Spherion Staffing Service Brookville, PA February 20, 2012. 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), or (c)(1)(employment decline or threat of separation) of section 222 has not been met.
TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date 82,249A UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealthcare Community and State Legal Department Minnetonka, MN. 82,249E UnitedHealth Group, Optum Insight Financial Performance Solutions, Revenue Cycle Managed Service Eden Prairie, MN. 82,249G UnitedHealth Group, OptumInsight, Payer Consulting, On-Site Leased Workers Eden Prairie, MN. 82,249H UnitedHealth Group, OptumInsight, Payer Consulting, On-Site Leased Workers Minnetonka, MN. 82,249I UnitedHealth Group, OptumInsight, Payer Product Management Eden Prairie, MN. 82,249R UnitedHealth Group, Optum, Inc., Optum Shared Services, Business Operations, Genesis 10 Bloomington, MN. 82,249S UnitedHealth Group, Optum, Inc., Optum Shared Services, Business Operations, Genesis 10 Golden Valley, MN. 82,249V UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealthcare Financial Data Management Department, Leased Workers Minnetonka, MN. 82,249W UnitedHealth Group, OptumHealth Application Development Plymouth, MN. 82,249X UnitedHealth Group, Optum, Inc., OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions, New Markets Bloomington, MN. 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.
TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date 82,249 UnitedHealth Group, OptumHealth Financial Services, Aerotek, On-Site Leased Workers Coon Rapids, MN 82,249B UnitedHealth Group, Optum, Inc., Credit Balance Field Operations Eden Prairie, MN 82,249F UnitedHealth Group, OptumInsight, Provider Consulting, On-Site Leased Workers Eden Prairie, MN 82,249J UnitedHealth Group, OptumInsight, X Hub, On-Site Leased Workers Eden Prairie, MN 82,249K UnitedHealth Group, OptumInsight, X Hub, On-Site Leased Workers Eden Prairie, MN 82,249L UnitedHealth Group, OptumInsight, Life Sciences Eden Prairie, MN Start Printed Page 28639 82,249M UnitedHealth Group, Optum, Payer Transformation Team, On-Site Leased Workers Eden Prairie, MN 82,249O UnitedHealth Group, United Payment Integrity, Advanced Analytics Process Eden Prairie, MN 82,249P UnitedHealth Group, Optum, Inc., Credit Balance Field Operations Eden Prairie, MN 82,249Q UnitedHealth Group, Optum, Inc., United Payment Integrity, Program Management Eden Prairie, MN 82,249T UnitedHealth Group, Optum, Inc., OptumHealth Financial Services, Stop Loss, Health Wealth, Lea Golden Valley, MN 82,249U UnitedHealth Group, Optum, Inc., OptumHealth Financial Services, Stop Loss, Health Wealth, Lea Minnetonka, MN 82,353B Comcast Cable, West Division, Residential Inbound Sales Group, Manpowergroup Solutions Beaverton, OR 82,353C Comcast Cable, West Division, Customer Retention Group Beaverton, OR 82,476 SuperValu, Inc., Pleasant Prairie Distribution Center, Progressive Logistics Services Pleasant Prairie, WI 82,497 TransUnion, LLC, End User Support—IT Department Chicago, IL 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.
TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date 82,463 BP Solar International, Inc., BP Corporation North America, Inc., BP America International, Inc Frederick, MD 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.
TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date 82,550 Verizon Business Networks Services, Inc., Senior-Analysts-Order Management Voice Over Internet Protocol, etc Tampa, FL The following determinations terminating investigations were issued because the petitions are the subject of ongoing investigations under petitions filed earlier covering the same petitioners.
TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date 82,620 Hewlett Packard Company, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Business Unit, EG HP Storage, etc Andover, MA I hereby certify that the aforementioned determinations were issued during the period of April 8, 2013 through April 12, 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.
Start SignatureDated: April 16, 2013.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance .
[FR Doc. 2013-11460 Filed 5-14-13; 8:45 am]
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Document Information
- Published:
- 05/15/2013
- Department:
- Employment and Training Administration
- Entry Type:
- Notice
- Document Number:
- 2013-11460
- Pages:
- 28636-28639 (4 pages)
- PDF File:
- 2013-11460.pdf