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GAO-22-105621 1 (2022-07-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaonil0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States July 7, 2022 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: 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 attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2021, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 76 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 DOL's implementation rate was 50 percent. As of June 2022, DOL had 118 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our June 2021 letter, DOL has implemented two of nine priority recommendations and we closed two recommendations as not implemented.3 Specifically: DOL implemented an initiative to regularly monitor affirmative action program plans from covered federal contractors to ensure compliance with equal employment opportunity requirements.4 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 2021, GAO-22-4SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2021). 3We closed as not implemented two priority recommendations for DOL's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to develop a plan to implement its oversight processes for COVID-19-adapted enforcement methods, and ensure that its data system includes information on these enforcement methods sufficient to inform these oversight processes. In May 2021 and December 2021, OSHA stated that some of these specific oversight processes had occurred and others were no longer planned. OSHA also stated that, instead, it plans to conduct an overall assessment of its pandemic efforts once the pandemic is no longer impacting its enforcement activities. Since OSHA is no longer planning its specific oversight processes for its adapted enforcement methods and plans instead to conduct an overall assessment, there is no longer an opportunity to take action on these recommendations. 4GAO, Equal Employment Opportunity: Strengthening Oversight Could Improve Federal Contractor Nondiscrimination Compliance, GAO-16-750 (Washington D.C.: Sept. 22, 2016). GAO-22-105621 DOL Priority Recommendations Page 1

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