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GAO-20-445PR 1 (2020-04-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeayt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States April 14, 2020 The Honorable Eugene Scalia Secretary of Labor U.S. Department of Labor 200 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20210 Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Labor Dear Secretary Scalia: The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the Department of Labor's (DOL) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your personal attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2019, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 DOL's implementation rate was 64 percent. As of March 2020, DOL had 110 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our April 2019 letter, DOL has implemented one of our six priority recommendations. DOL considered providing fiduciary relief for retirement plan sponsors to offer a mix of retirement income options. DOL's Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans studied this topic and included in its November 2018 report testimony from some who expressed support for providing relief to sponsors who offer at least three distinct retirement income options. Encouraging plan sponsors to make a mix of options available can help ensure retirees have more options to create a retirement income strategy appropriate for them. We ask your continued attention to the remaining five open priority recommendations we identified in the 2019 letter. As priorities this year, we are adding two new recommendations related to the impact of advanced technologies on the workforce, and federal contractors' compliance with affirmative action requirements. This brings the total number of open priority recommendations to seven. (See enclosure I for the list of these recommendations.) GAO was given responsibilities to review and report to Congress on agencies' implementation of programs designed to assist in the public health emergency currently facing our nation and to provide economic relief to individuals and institutions. This includes, for example, the implementation of flexibilities in work search requirements under the Unemployment Insurance 1 Priority recommendations are those that GAO believes warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies. They are highlighted because, upon implementation, they may significantly improve government operations, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or fragmentation, overlap, or duplication issue. 2 GAO, Performance and Accountability Report.- Fiscal Year 2019, GAO-20-1 SP (Washington, D.C.: November 19, 2019). GAO-20-445PR Priority Recommendations: DOL Page 1

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