Trade Adjustment Assistance Amendments Act of 1981

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Trade Adjustment Assistance Amendments Act of 1981 - Title I: Adjustment Assistance for Workers - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to revise eligibility requirements for adjustment assistance for workers. Requires that imports be a "substantial cause of" (presently "contributed importantly to") a decline at the firm at which a worker was employed. Directs the Secretary of Labor to provide full information to workers about the benefits available under the Act. Revises trade readjustment allowance qualifying requirements, weekly amounts, and limitations on allowances to provide, among other things: (1) that payment of an allowance shall be made to a worker who files an application for any week of unemployment beginning more than 60 days after a petition for certification (which resulted in certification) was filed, if the worker: (a) has a separation occurring within a specified time, (b) worked a specified length of time, for a specified minimum wage, within the 52 week period prior to separation, (c) has received waiting period credit under unemployment insurance law or has exhausted all rights and is not entitled to any unemployment insurance or waiting period credit; (2) that the all…