[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 54 (Monday, March 23, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12150-12151]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-6236]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-64,135]


Panasonic Electronic Devices Corporation of America, General and 
Administrative, Production Engineering, Switch Engineering, Including 
On-Site Leased Workers From Express Employment Professionals and 
Johnson Service Group, Knoxville, TN; Amended Certification Regarding 
Eligibility To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance and Alternative 
Trade Adjustment Assistance

    In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 
2273), and Section 246 of the Trade Act of 1974 (26 U.S.C. 2813), as 
amended, the Department of Labor issued a Certification of Eligibility 
to Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance and Alternative Trade 
Adjustment Assistance on October 14, 2008, applicable to workers of 
Panasonic Electronic Devices Corporation of America, General and 
Administrative, Production Engineering, Switch Engineering, including 
on-site leased workers from Express Employment Professionals, 
Knoxville, Tennessee. The notice was published in the Federal Register 
on October 21, 2008 (73 FR 62324).
    At the request of the State agency, the Department reviewed the 
certification for workers of the subject firm. The workers provide 
general and administrative services, production engineering, and switch 
engineering for the Panasonic speaker manufacturing facility in 
Knoxville, Tennessee.
    New information provided by the company shows that workers leased 
from Johnson Service Group were employed on-site at Panasonic

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Electronic Devices Corporation of America, General and Administrative, 
Production Engineering, Switch Engineering, Knoxville, Tennessee.
    The intent of the Department's certification is to include all 
workers at the subject firm who were adversely affected by the shift in 
production of speakers to Mexico.
    The Department has determined that these workers were sufficiently 
under the control of Panasonic Electronic Devices Corporation of 
America to be considered leased workers.
    Based on these findings, the Department is amending this 
certification to include workers leased from Johnson Service Group 
working on-site at Panasonic Electronic Devices Corporation of America, 
General and Administrative, Production Engineering, Switch Engineering, 
Knoxville, Tennessee.
    The amended notice applicable to TA-W-64,135 is hereby issued as 
follows:

    ``All workers of Panasonic Electronic Devices Corporation of 
America, General and Administrative, Production Engineering, Switch 
Engineering, Knoxville, Tennessee, including on-site leased workers 
from Express Employment Professionals and Johnson Service Group, who 
became totally or partially separated from employment on or after 
September 29, 2007 through October 14, 2010, are eligible to apply 
for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 
1974, and are also eligible to apply for alternative trade 
adjustment assistance under Section 246 of the Trade Act of 1974.''

    Signed in Washington, DC, this 11th day of March 2009.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
 [FR Doc. E9-6236 Filed 3-20-09; 8:45 am]
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