OKLAHOMA
CITY, OK – The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission announced today that
displaced workers from the Dallas, TX facility of Glen
Oaks Industries are eligible to receive financial help. The U.S.
Department of Labor has ruled that former employees of the Marietta,
OK company meet requirements to receive trade adjustment assistance
according to the Trade Act of 1974 (19 USC 2273) as amended by the Omnibus Trade
and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (P.L. 100-418). Under Section 223 of the
legislation, workers qualify for adjustment assistance if three criteria are
met: 1) workers must be laid off or threatened with layoff; 2) sales or
production must have decreased; and 3) increases in imports of products like or
directly competitive with products made by the firm must contribute to layoffs
or the threat of layoffs. Trade adjustment assistance is available to
individuals who become unemployed as a result of increased imports or a shift in
production. The goal is to help laid off workers return to suitable employment
as quickly as possible.
The
report concludes that “workers producing slacks at Glen Oaks Industries,
Dallas, Texas, whose wages were reported to Glen Oaks Industries in Marietta,
Oklahoma, who became totally or partially separated from employment on or after
June 16, 2001 through October 4, 2002, are eligible to apply for
adjustment assistance…” Separated employees who would like to take advantage
of this assistance should contact their nearest Workforce Oklahoma Local Office
at 1-888-840-WORK (9675).
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