ETA Explains Effect of New Trade Assistance Law

The Labor Department’s Employment and Training Administration explained Aug. 14 how it will handle petitions for trade adjustment assistance in light of the program’s recent reauthorization.

The TAA program provides job training and other reemployment benefits to workers who lost their jobs because of increased imports or shifts in production to foreign countries. TAA has been amended several times since it was created by the 1974 Trade Act. As a result, the amount of benefits and services that trade-affected workers receive varies according to when they filed their TAA petitions 28 LRW S-21, 1/29/14, 59 CLR 1483, 1/30/14, 18 DLR S-21, 1/28/14