Wagner-Peyser Act Staffing, Delay of Merit Staffing Compliance Date

What it does

The Department of Labor's (Department's) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is delaying by 1 year the date by which State grantees, as a condition on their grant funds, must comply with the regulatory requirements in the 2023 Wagner-Peyser Act Staffing Final Rule regarding the grant-funded staffing models States must use to deliver services in the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service (ES). The 2023 Final Rule became effective on January 23, 2024, and provided that all States have until January 22, 2026, 24 months after the effective date of the rule, to comply with the staffing requirements. With this 1-year delay, the compliance date is now January 21, 2027.

The Employment and Training Administration's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 20 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

20 CFR 652

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Employment and Training Administration has published 6 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 8 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 1205-AC23 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

This final rule is effective on January 21, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 20 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register