Trade Court Says Labor Properly Denied AT&T Call Center Workers Trade Adjustment Aid
The Court of International Trade in a June 30 opinion upheld the Labor Department's decision to deny a group of former AT&T call center workers trade adjustment assistance, finding the department "(finally) gets it right" after two previous remand orders.…
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In January, the case was remanded for a second time after Judge M. Miller Baker found that DOL failed to address whether AT&T's evidence was "satisfactory without statutory certification." The judge found Labor's answer to this question in its second remand results sufficient, holding the department adequately relied on AT&T's certified information showing it didn't shift call center services to a foreign country.