DOL Effectiveness in Serving Employers Performance Indicator – After Exit

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Background

On March 25, 2024, a joint final rule was finalized, of which establishes the definition of Effectiveness in Serving Employers.  

The U.S. Departments of Labor and Education published a joint final rule to incorporate a standard definition that would use “Retention with the Same Employer” as the criterion for the Effectiveness in Serving Employers Performance Indicator into the regulations for all six of the WIOA core programs.

  • Under Title Ib and Title III (Department of Labor (DOL)) the WIOA core programs are the Adult, Dislocated Worker, Youth, and the Employment Service programs.

  • Under Title II (Department of Education (ED)) the WIOA core program is the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act program.  

  • Under Title IV (Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)) the WIOA core program is the Vocational Rehabilitation program, of which is authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.  

The Final Rules are published in the Federal Register, for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Effectiveness in Serving Employers Performance Indicator final rule under Federal Register Number 89 FR 13814. This rule officially defines the sixth performance indicator—Effectiveness in Serving Employers—as Retention with the Same Employer in the second and fourth quarters following a participant’s exit from a WIOA core program and requires state grantees to report the indicator as a shared indicator across the six core programs as required under WIOA section 116(b)(2). The final rule took effect on March 25, 2024.

Note:  The Department of Labor (DOL) published a separate final rule that would use “Retention with the Same Employer” as the criterion to measure Effectiveness in Serving Employers for four DOL-administered WIOA title I non-core programs: Indian and Native American Programs, Job Corps, YouthBuild, and the National Farmworker Jobs Program. 

DOL Definition

The percentage of participants in unsubsidized employment during the second quarter after exit who were employed by the same employer in the second and the fourth quarters after exit.

Accountable WIOA Core Programs

The following DOL WIOA core programs under Title Ib and Title III (Department of Labor (DOL)) are held accountable, for this DOL performance indicator, and are the programs, of which our WPC DOL Effectiveness in Serving Employers Performance Indicator Dashboard supports:

  • Title III Wagner-Peyser (WP) 

  • Title Ib Adult (AD)

  • Title Ib Youth (Y)

  • Title Ib Dislocated Worker (DW) (Including the Rapid Response (RR) Program)

The Washington Workforce Training & Education Coordinating Board (WTECB) is the authorizing entity for this data, and is the entity of which supports/reports out on the data in total, for this performance indicator, for all of the DOL WIOA core programs under Title Ib and Title III (Department of Labor (DOL)), for the Adult, Dislocated Worker, Youth, and the Employment Service programs, and for the ED WIOA core program under Title II (Department of Education (ED)), for the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act program,and for the VR WIOA core program under Title IV (Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)), for the Vocational Rehabilitation program. 

Dashboard

DOL Effectiveness in Serving Employers Performance Indicator Dashboard (Coming soon)