Policies & Guidance

This guidance provides updated information concerning the management of source documents for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program participants. This policy rescinds State Instruction 14-01.

To issue revised guidance regarding any local workforce development area {LWDA) that falls below the 70 percent fund utilization rate, as outlined in State Instruction 19-04, Change 1, WIOA Title I Sanctions Policy. No other changes have been made to the policy. 

To provide guidance regarding participant cost rate (PCR) performance requirements for local workforce development area (LWDA) Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.

This guidance adds to the list of Wagner-Peyser (WP) activity codes that trigger participation for federal reporting purposes. 

The purpose of this instruction is to update guidance regarding requests to waive the employer registration requirement in SCWOS for job fairs and hiring events in response to mass layoffs and closure activities or worker shortages.

To issue changes to Workforce Investment Act (WIA) GED Prep and Basic Skills activity codes in the SC Works Online Services (SCWOS) system.

To outline additional possible sanctions that may be imposed for violation of the nondiscrimination and equal opportunity provisions of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). No other changes have been made to the policy and procedures issued in State Instruction 16- 17.

To establish the procedures for the timely investigation and resolution of grievances and complaints alleging violations of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) under Section 181 of WIOA. These procedures do not apply to discrimination complaints brought under Section 188 of WIOA and/or 29 CFR part 38. Such complaints must be handled in accordance with the procedures set forth in State Instruction Number 16-15. Nothing in these procedures precludes a grievant or complainant from pursuing a remedy authorized under another Federal, State, or local law.

To establish procedures for handling complaints of discrimination on a prohibited basis or bases under Section 188 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Nothing contained in the procedures shall be deemed to prejudice the separate exercise of other legal rights in pursuit of remedies and sanctions available outside of WIOA.

This guidance transmits electronic, word-fillable versions of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Rights Handout for Registrants, Applicants, and Participants in both English and Spanish.