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GAO-24-107287 1 (2024-05-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqdl0001 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 May 30, 2024 The Honorable Julie A. Su Acting Secretary of Labor U.S. Department of Labor 200 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20210 Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Labor Dear Acting Secretary Su: 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 2023, we reported that, on a government-wide basis, 75 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 DOL's implementation rate was 75 percent. As of April 2024, DOL had 114 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our May 2023 letter, DOL has implemented one of 11 open priority recommendations. Specifically, DOL identified and prioritized residual fraud risks for each inherent risk listed in its unemployment insurance (UI) fraud risk profile, as we recommended in October 2021. DOL also identified existing antifraud controls for each inherent risk and explained the suitability of existing fraud controls. Prioritizing residual fraud risks and examining the suitability of existing fraud controls will provide DOL with key information to develop an antifraud strategy and effectively manage UI fraud risks.3 We ask for your attention to the remaining 10 open priority recommendations. We are adding three new recommendations on worker safety in the meat and poultry industry and UI information technology (IT) modernization, bringing the total number of priority recommendations to 13. (See the Enclosure for the list of recommendations.) The 13 priority recommendations fall into the following three areas. Stronger protections for wage earners. DOL faces challenges protecting the safety and health of workers employed in the over 8 million workplace establishments in the nation. We 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 duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2023, GAO-24-900483 (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2023). 3COVID-19: Additional Actions Needed to Improve Accountability and Program Effectiveness of Federal Response, GAO-22-105051 (Washington, D.C.: Oct. 27, 2021). GAO-24-107287 DOL Priority Recommendations Page 1

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