# Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act; Joint Rule for Unified and Combined State Plans, Performance Accountability, and the One-Stop System Joint Provisions; Final Rule
> **Employment and Training Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2016-08-19 · Effective 2016-10-18 · 81 FR 55792
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-15977
- **Category:** workforce-training
- **Sub-agency:** Employment and Training Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 55792
- **CFR reference:** 20 CFR 676
- **Publication date:** 2016-08-19
- **Effective date:** 2016-10-18
- **DOL docket:** Docket No. ETA-2015-0002
## Abstract

The Departments of Education (ED) and Labor (DOL) (or, collectively, Departments) issue this Joint Final Rule to implement jointly administered activities authorized by title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) signed into law on July 22, 2014 (hereafter "Joint WIOA Final Rule"). Through these regulations, the Departments implement workforce education and employment system reforms and strengthen the nation's public workforce development system to provide increased economic opportunity and make the United States more competitive in the 21st century evolving labor market. This Joint WIOA Final Rule provides guidance for State and local workforce development systems that increase the skill and credential attainment, employment, retention, and earnings of participants, especially those with significant barriers to employment, thereby improving the quality of the workforce, reducing dependency on public benefits, increasing economic opportunity, and enhancing the productivity and competitiveness of the nation.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/08/19/2016-15977/workforce-innovation-and-opportunity-act-joint-rule-for-unified-and-combined-state-plans-performance)
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