# Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
> **Employment and Training Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2016-08-19 · Effective 2016-10-18 · 81 FR 56072
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-15975
- **Category:** workforce-training
- **Sub-agency:** Employment and Training Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 56072
- **CFR reference:** 20 CFR 603
- **Publication date:** 2016-08-19
- **Effective date:** 2016-10-18
- **DOL docket:** Docket No. ETA-2015-0001
## Abstract

The Department of Labor (DOL or the Department) issues this Final Rule to implement titles I and III of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Through these regulations, the Department reforms and modernizes our nation's workforce development system. This rule provides the framework for changes for statewide and local workforce development systems to increase the employment, retention, earnings, and occupational skill attainment of U.S. workers, particularly those individuals with barriers to employment, so they can move into good jobs and careers and provide businesses with the skilled workforce needed to make the United States more competitive in the 21st Century global economy.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/08/19/2016-15975/workforce-innovation-and-opportunity-act)
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