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HRD-84-21 1 (1984-01-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabngb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I' UNITED STATES GEhEHAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE rWASHINGTON, D.C. 20546 HUMAN RMOUNC8 January 31, 1984 °- l ll1111111111U 1111 I R-214 127 123311 The Honorable Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. Chairman, Subcommittee on the Handicapped Committee on Labor and Human Resources United States Senate The Honorable Robert T. Stafford Subcommittee on the Handicapped Committee on Labor and Human Resources United States Senate Subject: The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs' Actions to Improve Processing of Handicapped Employment Discrimination Complaints (GAO/HRD-84-21) In response to your September 30, 1982, letter, we reviewed the Department of Labor's policies and procedures for enforcing sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. These sections provide protections for the handicapped against employment discrimination by federal contractors and against discrimination in participation in federal financial assistance programs, respectively. This letter and its enclo- sures summarize the information we obtained. We began our work in February 1983, and in June 1983 we briefed members of the Subcommittee staff on the results of our preliminary work in Labor's (1) Office of Federal Contract Com- pliance Programs (OFCCP), which enforces section 503 government- wide, and (2) Office of Civil Rights (OCR), which enforces sec- tion 504 for Labor programs. In our briefing we provided (1) information on current policies and procedures for process- ing complaints and compliance reviews under the two sections and (2) data on workloads. We also reported at that briefing that both OFCCP and OCR had made or were planning to make changes to provide for more efficient and effective complaint processing. Information we had obtained indicated that the changes, especially in OFCCP, covered many aspects of compliance activities. After discussing (209596) oW7w4q

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