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GAO-21-429PR 1 (2021-06-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaolwr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: O1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States June 29, 2021 The Honorable Martin J. Walsh Secretary of Labor U.S. Department of Labor 200 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20210 Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Labor Dear Secretary Walsh: I appreciated our recent meeting and look forward to a constructive working relationship between our two institutions. As discussed, 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 2020, 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 61 percent. As of May 2021, DOL had 118 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our April 2020 letter, DOL has implemented one of seven priority recommendations: DOL took steps to develop ways to identify and track the effects of advanced technologies on the U.S. workforce, as we recommended in March 2019. The agency published a report that evaluated data gaps and provided recommendations for data collection options. DOL now releases employment projections annually instead of every two years. In addition, DOL examined ways to use its O*NET data system to better assess the potential impact of advanced technologies on the world of work. Collecting better data on how advanced technologies are changing the workplace could help DOL and policymakers design training programs that meet the job needs of the future. We ask that you direct your attention to the six remaining open priority recommendations we identified in our April 2020 letter. We are adding three new recommendations related to the impact of COVID-19 on the workforce, bringing the total number of priority recommendations to nine. (See the enclosure for the list of recommendations.) The nine priority recommendations fall into three areas listed below. 1Priority 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. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2020, GAO-21-4SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 16, 2020). GAO-21-429PR Priority Recommendations: DOL Page 1

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