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Accountability * Integrity * Reliability
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548
June 3, 2005
The Honorable George Miller
Ranking Minority Member
Committee on Education and the Workforce
House of Representatives
Subject: Fair Labor Standards Act: Labor Made Key Decisions in Studies
of Updated Overtime Rule and Contractor Provided Support
Dear Mr. Miller:
In 2004, the Department of Labor (Labor) updated the rule that determines
who is entitled to overtime pay of "time and a half' when they work more
than 40 hours a week. As part of the rule-making process, Labor was
required to estimate the impact of the updated overtime rule and publish
the results in the Federal Register. Labor contracted with the CONSAD
Research Corporation (CONSAD) to assist the agency in studying the
impact of both the proposed and final overtime rule.
Because of your interest in these studies and how they were conducted,
we agreed to identify: (1) CONSAD's contractual responsibilities in
assisting Labor with estimating the impact of the updated overtime rule on
workers and (2) CONSAD's actions in carrying out these contractual
responsibilities. To determine CONSAD's responsibilities, we obtained and
analyzed two contracts between Labor and CONSAD. The first contract
covered CONSAD's responsibilities related to Labor's impact study for the
proposed overtime rule, while the second contract covered CONSAD's
responsibilities related to Labor's impact study for the final overtime rule.
To determine CONSAD's actions in carrying out these responsibilities, we
reviewed CONSAD's reports as well as the impact studies for the proposed
and final rule that Labor published in the Federal Register. In addition, we
interviewed officials from Labor and CONSAD. While this review
describes the creation of the impact studies, it does not assess the
soundness of the studies. We conducted our work from August 2004 to
April 2005 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing
standards.
Results in Brief The contracts required CONSAD to provide technical and analytic support
to assist Labor in estimating the impact of the updated overtime rule. ForGAO-05-580R Fair Labor Standards Act
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