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Program year 2018 labor market information grants
Summary ETA set requirements for states receiving program year 2018 Workforce and Labor Market Information Grants. The letter describes required, encouraged and allowable information products, reporting and grant management duties. Attachment 1 lists deliverables; Attachment 2 gives required product attribution and intellectual property language. ETA now lists this program-year advisory as Canceled.
Document
Federal guidance
Agency
U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
Document number
TEGL No. 20-17
Date issued
June 22, 2018
Status
Withdrawn
ETA lists this program-year advisory Canceled as of 2026-10-24, although its PDF prints Expiration Date: Continuing.
Status last verified October 24, 2026
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CLASSIFICATION
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION Workforce Information
ADVISORY SYSTEM CORRESPONDENCE SYMBOL
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR DNPTTA/Workforce Information
Washington, D.C. 20210 DATE
June 22, 2018
ADVISORY: TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT GUIDANCE LETTER NO. 20-17
TO: STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES
STATE WORKFORCE ADMINISTRATORS
STATE LABOR COMMISSIONERS
STATE AND LOCAL WORKFORCE BOARD CHAIRS AND DIRECTORS
STATE WORKFORCE LIAISONS
STATE LABOR MARKET INFORMATION,
WORKFORCE INFORMATION, OR RESEARCH DIRECTORS
FROM: ROSEMARY LAHASKY /s/
Deputy Assistant Secretary
SUBJECT: Program Year (PY) 2018 Workforce and Labor Market Information Grants to
States (WIGS): Program Guidance and Deliverables
1. Purpose. To provide program guidance for the development, management, and delivery of
workforce and labor market information (WLMI) funded through the WIGS.
2. References.
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13 and 44 U.S.C. 3501-3520);
2 CFR Part 200 and 2 CFR Part 2900 Uniform Administrative Requirements Cost
Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards;
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 508 as amended (29 U.S.C. 794d);
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 16-17, May 21, 2018, Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities
Program Allotments for Program Year (PY) 2018; Final PY 2018 Allotments for the
Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service (ES) Program Allotments; and Workforce
Information Grants to States Allotments for PY 2018;
TEGL No. 6-17, January 24, 2018, Modification Requirements for Workforce Innovation
and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Unified and Combined State Plans;
TEGL No. 4-17, September 22, 2017, Change 1 of December 22, 2017, Program Year
(PY) 2016 Workforce Labor Market Information Grants to States (WIGS): Policy and
Program Guidance and Deliverables; and
TEGL No. 15-14, December 19, 2014, Implementation of the New Uniform Guidance
Regulations;
RESCISSIONS EXPIRATION DATE
None Continuing
3. OMB Approval. To conform with the PRA, the President’s Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) has reviewed and approved this information collection (OMB Control
Number 1205-0417), whose authorization expires May 31, 2020. Under 5 CFR 1320.5(b), an
agency cannot conduct, sponsor, or require a response to a collection of information unless
the collection displays a valid OMB Control Number.
4. Fund Allotments, Goals and Objectives. The Employment and Training Administration
(ETA) previously published PY 2018 allotments for WIGS in TEGL No. 16-17 on May 21,
2018. Please refer to this TEGL for specific allotments by state. (Note that, hereafter, the
term “state” also includes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the outlying areas).
Each year, ETA funds these WIGS and specifies grant requirements. State workforce
agencies use WIGS to develop and disseminate essential state and local WLMI for job
seekers, employers, educators, economic developers, and others.
The main body of this TEGL describes required, encouraged, and other allowable activities,
and explains the rationale for ETA policies and requirements. Attachment 1 summarizes
WIGS requirements, and includes important administrative details that are not covered
in the body of the guidance, such as deadlines and submission requirements for grant
deliverables.
5. Required, Encouraged, and Other Allowable Activities. State workforce agencies use
WIGS to develop and disseminate essential state and local WLMI for a range of customer
groups: 1) job seekers; 2) businesses/employers; 3) workforce and labor market
intermediaries, such as employment, school, and career counselors, and case managers at
American Job Centers (AJCs), who help individuals find a job or make career decisions, or
engage businesses seeking skilled workers; 4) program and service planners at educational
institutions and community-based organizations; 5) policy makers, including state and local
workforce development boards (WDBs); 6) partners, such as economic development entities
and human resource professionals; and 7) other customers, including recipients of workforce
development grants, researchers, commercial data providers, and the media. Grantees have
considerable flexibility to meet customer needs, but must consult their customers and prepare
several types of products.
Required products. Grantees must populate and maintain a database (a below), produce two
types of public products (b and d below), and ensure staff are adequately trained (c below).
If the grantee does not produce a required deliverable, it must negotiate an extension and a
revised schedule with the appropriate ETA regional office.
a. Workforce Information Database (WID). WID 2.7 was released May 1, 2017. The
states are required to implement WID 2.7 by June 30, 2018. As this is still the most
recent WID release, no further version implementations are required during the upcoming
Program Year. Accurate and reliable data are a cornerstone of the nation’s workforce
investment system. The WID includes the most important workforce-related data
elements and defines them consistently, ensuring comparability across jurisdictions. Its
variables include employment projections; wages; educational programs; the locations of
educational and training institutions; contact information for all U.S. employers; and state
occupational licenses. The Analyst Resource Center (ARC), an ETA funded grantee
which supports consistent LMI data collection, has recently published justification for
this state requirement at www.widcenter.org/why-a-standard-structure/.
States must use WIGS funds to populate, maintain, and update the WID, and to provide
related staff training. Grantees must implement and maintain the most current version
(now 2.7) of WID and populate all ARC designated core tables. The ARC website
(www.widcenter.org/document/all-core-tables/) describes all required data elements and
helps grantees obtain maximum benefit from the WID. ETA uses the WID to offer
career information and guidance via a web platform, CareerOneStop
(www.careeronestop.org), ETA’s suite of national electronic tools for job seekers and
labor market intermediaries such as employment counselors, employers, and many
others.
b. State and local industry and occupational employment projections. These
projections are the most frequently requested type of employment statistic other than the
unemployment rate and occupational wages. Projections are used to identify in-demand
industries and occupations for career guidance; to plan employment, education and
training, and economic development programs; as supporting documentation to apply for
Federal grants; and for many other purposes. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
funds national employment projections, but WIGS fund the state and local (sub-state)
projections produced by the states with assistance from ETA and BLS.
The employment projections requirements are described in the table following sub-
section d below and deadlines for these products are established by the Projections
Managing Partnership (PMP), a state consortium. ETA’s requirements do not differ
between industry and occupational projections, but vary for long-term vs. short-term
projections, and statewide vs. sub-state projections. ETA grantees who are unable to
produce the required projections must report this to their ETA regional office.
Grantees must use the methodology, software, and guidelines specified by the state-led
PMP to produce all projections. Additionally, grantees must use the Local Employment
and Wages Information System (LEWIS) to provide the staffing patterns for sub-state
projections. To meet these requirements, grantees may use WIGS funds to obtain
training provided by the PMP (see https://support.projectionscentral.com), ARC (see
www.widcenter.org), LEWIS (www.lewissupport.com/) and other LMI-WI-related
sources.
c. Employee development and LMI training for service delivery. In accordance with
section 3(c)(4) of the Wagner-Peyser (29 U.S.C. 49b(c)(4), as amended by section
303(b)(2) of WIOA, states must provide employee development and LMI training to
ensure quality service delivery. Such training should be provided to State workforce
agency staff, to their local AJCs, and WDBs, in an effort to promote robust use of
Workforce LMI. The training provided, and to whom, should be identified in the State’s
Annual Performance report. The provision of LMI training will help support a one-stop
delivery system that provides high quality and professional services to the job seeker and
businesses.
d. Annual Performance Report. Grantees must submit an annual performance report to
their ETA regional office that summarizes all grantee activities, and lists the core
deliverables and activities shown below, in the order indicated by October 1 each year.
i. Workforce information database (WID)
ii. Industry and occupational employment projections
iii. Annual economic analysis and other reports
iv. Customer consultations
v. Activities undertaken to meet customer needs
vi. New tools and resources
vii. License requirement(s) updates
viii. Efforts to create and support partnerships and collaborations
ix. Activities to leverage LMI-WI funding
x. Recommendations to ETA for changes and improvements to WIGS requirements
xi. Brief overview of the required training.
e. A statewide annual economic analysis report. ETA regards state economic and labor
market analyses as essential to plan WIOA and other workforce programs. Therefore,
ETA requires statewide economic analysis reports, and encourages annual publication.
However, ETA recognizes that conditions may not change sufficiently each year to
necessitate an annual report, and gives states the discretion to determine their frequency.
For years in which a comprehensive economic report is not issued, grantees must publish
other economic reports of value to state policymakers (including the governor and state
legislature), as well as state and local WDBs.
Grantees have broad discretion over the reports’ contents, but they should include
analyses of trends and challenges at both the state and sub-state levels. Examples of
topics may include gross domestic product; employment growth or decline (actual and
projected); unemployment and other labor market hardship indicators (such as low
earnings); identification of growing and/or in-demand occupations and/or industries;
other analyses of important industries and occupations; and skill shortages, mismatches
or deficiencies, within the limitations of the available data. The analyses should address
the jobless population as a whole, as well as the experiences, needs, and challenges of the
targeted populations identified in state planning requirements.
ETA will not accept the following submissions for the economic analysis report or its
substitute: 1) data tables alone; 2) job listings; 3) maps alone; 4) reports done by the
grantee for BLS (e.g., news releases, employment situation reports, projections, etc.); 5)
reports solely funded by Federal sources other than WIGS; or 6) any publication that does
not contain any economic analysis related to that state.
The table below provides details regarding the WIGS deliverables for states:
Deliverable Required, encouraged and other Due Date
allowable activities
Statewide long-term Statewide 10-year projections are No State 10-Year
required in alternate years. Projections this year.
Statewide short-term Submission of 2-year projections are March 7, 2019
required each year.
ETA also encourages states to The Two Year
disseminate their short-term Projections is
projections. projected to 2020 with
State may also produce longer a base year of 2018
projections (e.g., 3, 4 or 5 years).
ETA also encourages states to
disseminate these projections.
ETA discourages development of 1-
year projections
Sub-state long-term 10-year projections July 5, 2019
Sub-state short-term Encouraged, but not required, activity N/A
Work Force All States should now be using WID 2.7 June 30, 2018
Information Database
(WID)
(WIGS) 2018 Statewide States submit this report to the October 1, 2019
Economic Analysis appropriate ETA regional office. The
Report Economic report should provide web
links to any additional economic and
labor market reports and products.
Because of security, all files must be in
a Portable Document File (PDF) format.
(WIGS) 2018 Annual The Annual Performance Report must October 1, 2019
Report and signed have a signed cover letter from the State
cover letter LMI Director stating the state has
fulfilled all the deliverables of the
WIGS grant. The State LMI Director is
to submit the signed letter and report as
separate files to the appropriate ETA
regional office. Because of security, all
files must be in a PDF format.
WLMI Training for the ETA requires states to provide LMI States must submit data
Workforce System training for state and local WDB and as part of their Annual
AJC staff. The training must promote Performance Report to
ETA’s LMI goals and objectives. their respective ETA
regional office due by
October 1, 2019
Licensing information: States must submit data to the ARC in At least every 2 years
states must populate the the manner specified. See
database with the http://www.widcenter.org/supported-
license.dbf and activities/licenses/ for guidance.
licauth.dbf licensing files
Encouraged economic and labor market reports and products. ETA encourages grantees to
produce other reports and data in addition to those specified above. Grantees have wide
discretion in both the topics and presentation format. These reports should include accurate
data, actionable information, and resources that enable job seekers, employers, staff in AJCs,
state and local WDBs, policy makers, and the workforce investment system to make
informed decisions about the work-based learning, training, reemployment, and career
pathways strategies that lead to worker advancement along a continuum of high-demand and
higher wage jobs. Examples of such other products include: online self-service tools and
other occupational and career guidance resources for job seekers; industry- or occupation-
specific research; data visualizations, job vacancy surveys; supply/demand analysis; reports
based on analyses of on-line job orders (job ads) data sources; and studies of topics of
continuing interest such as labor or skill gaps, mismatches, or deficiencies. Examples of
these reports and products are found on state websites and various US Department of Labor
websites.
Other allowable activities. While this TEGL requires states to provide LMI training to State
workforce agency staff, their local AJCs, and WDBs, ETA also encourages grantees to
provide training and technical assistance about various types of WLMI and its uses to state
Wagner-Peyser staff, WIOA program planners and policy makers, and other workforce
system stakeholders. The training provided, and to whom, is to be identified in the State’s
Annual Performance Reports. The purpose of this training is to assist stakeholders in using
WLMI for data-driven program planning and informed decision-making. It also assists such
staff to better identify and more rigorously report when participants receive WLMI services,
to ensure that performance reports better measure the value and impact of WLMI. ETA also
encourages grantees to leverage WIGS funds by expanding partnerships among the
workforce investment system, and education, training, and economic development
communities.
6. Required Methods. Grantees have considerable flexibility in conducting their work, but
must meet certain methodological standards in collaborating with partners; consulting with
customers; collecting data; disseminating statistics; maintaining data integrity,
confidentiality, and security; and posting their products on the Internet.
a. Partnerships. In order to best serve their customers and optimize the Federal
investment, grantees should establish and maintain partnerships that grantees consider
relevant and mutually beneficial. Such partnerships help to increase resources, improve
program outcomes, and help WLMI data influence planning and program decisions.
b. Customer consultation. One of the key tenets of WIOA is meeting the needs of
businesses and jobseekers. Further, WIOA requires states to consult with customers,
including employers, WDBs, core partner programs such as education agencies,
participants, students, and others about the relevance of the WLMI collected and
disseminated. WIGS grantees must consult with customers to ensure the workforce
system is providing relevant and integrated information to support decision-making by
state and local WDBs and other stakeholders. ETA does not prescribe how to perform
outreach, but suggests it be performed in collaboration with other workforce system
entities that are doing similar outreach, such as business engagement or industry outreach
staff at the state and local level. Grantees must document these consultations in their
grant file and annual performance report.
c. Data collection and research methodology. All ETA data collection activities must
conform to BLS technical standards and methodologies except when the grantee
documents a defensible rationale for an alternative and submits the information to the
appropriate ETA regional office before the Program year starts. Information used in
reports must: 1) be based in part on needs identified through customer consultations and
product assessments; and 2) come from credible sources that meet professional standards.
Multiple sources must be used, except when the report is based upon a single survey.
Sources must be clearly referenced and/or footnoted. Any additional methodologies
employed and any variants encountered in the research must also be clearly described.
d. Publication requirements. In order to maximize the availability of WLMI products,
grantees must post grant-funded products, reports, and workforce information on their
websites in a readily accessible manner (unless otherwise indicated), and meet standard
Federal accessibility requirements (www.section508.gov). To meet this criterion,
grantees may use WIGS funding to develop, maintain, improve, or host WLMI websites
and other electronic delivery systems. Grantees must also use the approved language in
Attachment 2 on products or sites that are funded by WIGS. This language is repeated in
Attachment 2 for convenience but is a standard requirement included in ETA grant award
documents.
e. Information technology (IT) specifications. To maximize its usefulness, any IT system
or application developed with WIGS should adhere to industry-standard, open
architecture principles with documentation and software made available for use by other
organizations for Federal governmental purposes. To enhance the reporting of the
delivery of both virtual, in-person and hard copy WLMI services to customers, states are
encouraged to work toward greater management information system (MIS) integration to
capture WLMI services provided.
7. Application for Federal Assistance Reporting Requirements.
a. Application forms. As noted above, please refer to TEGL No. 16-17 for application
submission requirements for PY 2018 WIGS grants. Note that this TEGL specifies a due
date of July 13, 2018 for submission of application forms.
b. Other standard forms and files. ETA requires grantees to complete ETA Form 9130
quarterly financial reports within 45 days of the end of each quarter. In addition, grantees
must maintain their internal grant files in electronic form, and make these available upon
request to ETA.
c. Deadlines. By accepting WIGS funding, a state agrees to fulfill all work specified in this
guidance, including the deadlines. ETA expects grantees to expend WIGS funds using a
First in First out (FIFO) spending system. All funds received from the earliest date are to
be completely expended before spending funds received from a later date. Any carryover
must be expended before using any new funding. Grantees must expend the funds within
the three-year period ending June 30, 2021. During the performance period, the grantee
and the ETA regional office may jointly adjust planned expenditures within the state’s
allotment. All WIGS expenditures must support the required and allowable activities,
and conform to "reasonable," "necessary," and "allocable" costs specified in 2 CFR 200
(Uniform Guidance see: https://cfo.gov//cofar/#RUUG). WIGS cannot be used to
supplant funding from other Federal or state sources. Please contact your regional Federal
Project Officer (FPO) for technical assistance.
8. Additional Resources. ETA’s Labor Market Information Central
(https://lmi.workforcegps.org/) is the agency’s principal repository of technical assistance
resources to enhance the use of WLMI. These resources include ETA’s Guide to State and
Local Workforce Data
(https://lmi.workforcegps.org/resources/2015/04/03/15/48/Guide_to_State_and_Local_Work
force_Data). This guide provides a directory of links to state and local employment
projections and research pertaining to skill shortages, mismatches and deficiencies; the
identification of high growth and/or in-demand industries and occupations; and how to
understand and use data for special populations such as dislocated workers, individuals with
disabilities, veterans, and Native Americans.
9. Action Requested. As described in TEGL 16-17, and above, to initiate the PY 18 WIGS,
state workforce agencies (SWA) are required to submit the SF 424 to Grants.gov by July 13,
2018. Per the grant agreement, during the course of the year, grantees will provide the
deliverables according to the requirements and timeframes outlined in Attachment 1.
10. Inquiries. For questions on grant requirements, contact the applicable ETA regional office.
For financial management questions, contact the applicable ETA regional office, Grants
Management Specialist Chanta Ferrell at [email protected], or National Grant Officer
Serena Boyd at [email protected].
11. Attachments
1. Consolidated Requirements for WIGS Grantees
2. Language for Grant Product Attribution and Intellectual Property Rights
Attachment (official PDF: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/advisories/TEGL/2018/TEGL_20-17_Attachment_1_Acc.pdf)
Attachment 1. Consolidated Requirements for WIGS Grantees
The following table summarizes the deliverables and requirements in column 1 (the body of the
TEGL explains these in full). Columns 2 and 3 contain important administrative details that have
not been included in the body of the TEGL, which focuses on policy.
Deliverables and Requirements Due Dates Submission, Formatting
and Other Requirements
REPORTING
SF 424 (Application for Federal Assistance) The SF 424 is States must submit the
Instructions for the SF-424 and forms can be found required to be SF 424 to
at https://www.grants.gov/iw/forms/sf-424- submitted to www.Grants.gov.
family.html . Select either “Instructions” or “PDF” Grants.gov by
for OMB number 4040-0004, currently the third row July 13, 2018.
on the page.
If a state believes it is necessary to revise their
expenditure plan due to unforeseen factors, the state
may petition the regional office for approval to modify
the plan.
Sample completed SF 424 forms may be
obtained from the applicable ETA regional
office.
ETA Form 9130 quarterly financial reports. All Within 45 days August 14, 2018,
sections of the form must be completed. after the end of November 14, 2018,
each quarter February 14, 2019,
May 15, 2019.
Deliverables and Requirements Due Dates Submission, Formatting
and Other Requirements
Annual Performance Report. The report must October 1, 2019 1) This report must be
include hyperlinks to all published products, and major submitted to the
unpublished products must be attached. It must also appropriate ETA regional
summarize all activities, including the following. office in a Section 508-
Describe all deliverables, highlighting new compliant accessible PDF
accomplishments and noting whether partnerships format for posting online
or collaborations were involved. on www.doleta.gov.
The required customer consultations regarding 2) Unless a product
products and services, including the customer needs referred to is a Web site,
identified. If customers identified needed all Internet links in the
improvements, state the responsive measures taken. document must lead
Partnership and collaborative efforts, including directly to the product, not
activities to leverage grant funding and new to a Web site that includes
activities. the product.
Recommendations to ETA for changes and 3) See general product and
improvements. publication requirements.
Description of the training provided to include date,
subject, who attended and the presenter(s).
PRODUCT AND PUBLICATION
REQUIREMENTS
Product Requirements (general) Ongoing All products must include
Provide accurate and actionable information that the date of issuance or
enables informed decisions by customers, and revision, and an
supports the development of data-driven strategies acknowledgement that the
and policies. product was produced
Produce products benefitting the governor, state either in whole or in part
legislature, state and local WDBs, relevant with Department of
stakeholders, and the public. Labor-funded WIGS.
ETA encourages grantees to notify their regional Documents must be
office when products are posted on the Internet. formatted to permit parts
to be copied (including
specific words), e.g., a MS
Word document or
accessible .pdf formatting
enabling such copying.
Publication Requirements (general). States must Within a States must include links
post all grant-funded products, reports, and workforce reasonable to all WIGS-funded
information on the Internet in a manner accessible to period after the published material on
all members of the public (unless otherwise indicated), completion of their LMI Web site, and
and comply with Rehabilitation Act Section 508 the work present it in a manner that
requirements. makes it easy for the
public to find this
material.
Deliverables and Requirements Due Dates Submission, Formatting
and Other Requirements
Workforce Information Database (WID). Within one year Implemented in the
Implement and maintain the most current version (now from the release manner specified by the
2.7) of the WID and populate all designated core tables of a new ARC. [States should
in accordance with Analyst Resource Center (ARC) database version inform their regional
guidelines (required data elements are listed at office if they use
www.widcenter.org/state-dbas). supplemental or non-
standard WID tables.]
Occupational licensing information: states must At least every 2 States must submit data in
populate the database with the license.dbf and years the manner specified by
licauth.dbf licensing files. ARC.
Employment Projections (general) Ongoing State must provide links to
all published projections
on a single Web page.
Unpublished projections
products must be provided
to the ETA regional office
(to confirm that the
deliverable was
completed).
Statewide long-term industry and occupational No Projections File must be provided to
projections this year. (2018- PMP in a manner to be
10-year projections 2028 statewide specified by the PMP.
projections work
will be required
next year.).
Statewide short-term industry and occupational Due March 7, File must be provided to
projections 2019 for PMP in a manner to be
2-year projections projections from specified by the PMP.
2018-2020.
Sub-state long-term industry and occupational Due July 12, No Sub-state 10 Year
projections 2019 for Projections in PY18.
10-year projections projections from Please note these will be
2016-2026. due early in PY19.
Sub-state short-term industry and occupational NA If submitted, the file must
projections be provided to PMP in a
[Optional: allowable and encouraged, but not manner to be specified by
required, activity] the PMP.
Deliverables and Requirements Due Dates Submission, Formatting
and Other Requirements
Annual and Economic Analysis Reports (or Economic Reports The Annual
substitute as explained in the body of the TEGL). The due October 1, Performance Report
information must be based on needs identified through 2019 must have a signed
customer consultations; must come from multiple, cover letter, from the
credible sources; and must be clearly referenced and/or Annual Reports
State LMI director,
and signed cover
footnoted. stating the state has
letter due October
1, 2019 fulfilled all the
deliverables of the
WIGS grant. The
State LMI Director is
to submit the signed
letter and report as
separate files to the
appropriate ETA
regional office.
All Economic
Analysis and Annual
Performance Reports
files must be in PDF
format.
Unless a product
referred to is a Web
site, all Internet links
in the document must
lead directly to the
product, not to a Web
site that includes the
product.
See general product
and publication
requirements.
Other Published Reports. The information must be Within 90 Must be formatted in a
based on needs identified through customer calendar days manner to permit parts of
consultations; must come from multiple, credible following the it to be copied (including
sources; and must be clearly referenced and/or end of the specific words), e.g., a MS
footnoted. program year Word document or
accessible .pdf formatting
enabling such copying.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Data collection. All data collection activities must Ongoing
conform to the BLS technical standards and
methodologies. If this does not occur, the grantee must
document a defensible rationale for an alternative.
Deliverables and Requirements Due Dates Submission, Formatting
and Other Requirements
IT systems and applications. Any IT system or Ongoing
application developed with WIGS is to adhere to
industry-standard, open architecture principles with
documentation and software made available for use by
other organizations for Federal governmental purposes.
Attachment (official PDF: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/advisories/TEGL/2018/TEGL_20-17_Attachment_2_Acc.pdf)
Attachment 2. Language for Grant Product Attribution and Intellectual Property Rights
The following language needs to appear on all products developed in whole or in part with grant
funds:
“This workforce product was funded by a grant awarded by the U.S. Department of
Labor’s Employment and Training Administration. The product was created by the
recipient and does not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of
Labor. The U.S. Department of Labor makes no guarantees, warranties, or assurances of
any kind, express or implied, with respect to such information, including any information
on linked sites and including, but not limited to, accuracy of the information or its
completeness, timeliness, usefulness, adequacy, continued availability, or ownership.
This product is copyrighted by the institution that created it. Internal use by an
organization and/or personal use by an individual for non-commercial purposes is
permissible. All other uses require the prior authorization of the copyright owner.”
In addition, the following text needs to appear when applicable.
“The Federal Government reserves a paid-up, nonexclusive and irrevocable license to
reproduce, publish or otherwise use, and to authorize others to use for federal purposes: i)
the copyright in all products developed under the grant, including a subgrant or contract
under the grant or subgrant; and ii) any rights of copyright to which the recipient,
subrecipient or a contractor purchases ownership under an award (including but not
limited to curricula, training models, technical assistance products, and any related
materials). Such uses include, but are not limited to, the right to modify and distribute
such products worldwide by any means, electronically or otherwise. Federal funds may
not be used to pay any royalty or license fee for use of a copyrighted work, or the cost of
acquiring by purchase a copyright in a work, where the Department has a license or rights
of free use in such work, although they may be used to pay costs for obtaining a copy
which is limited to the developer/seller costs of copying and shipping. If revenues are
generated through selling products developed with grant funds, including intellectual
property, these revenues are program income. Program income must be used in
accordance with the provisions of this grant award and 2 CFR 200.307.
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