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Federal Communications Commission
Information Technology and Operational Technology Asset Management Evaluation Report
Financial Audit of Center for Agribusiness and Rural Development Foundation, Rural Economic Development - New Economic Opportunities Project in Armenia, Cooperative Agreement 72011119CA00001, January 1 to December 31, 2023
Each year, increased mail volume during the U.S. Postal Service’s peak season —Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve — significantly strains its processing and distribution network. In our prior reports, we discussed how Postal Service management developed a preparedness plan to address the strain with the right amount of personnel, resources, and capacity throughout its network.
Close-out Audit of the Schedule of Expenditures of Co-Impact, Shared Workplaces, Shared Society Program in West Bank and Gaza, Cooperative Agreement 72029421CA00010, January 1, 2023, to September 28, 2023
Management Advisory Report on Post Medical Inventory: Promising Practices in Peace Corps/The Gambia Can Inform Needed Improvements in Peace Corps/Namibia
Our objective for this report was to assess the extent to which the company effectively manages leave granted under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
The FMLA provides important protections to employees who need to miss work for their medical conditions or those of a family member. We have previously reported on employee abuses of FMLA leave and weaknesses in the company’s administration of it that could have contributed to such abuse.
In this report, we found that Amtrak is committed to ensuring that its employees maintain access to the important job protections FMLA provides, and that its process for approving leave is generally effective. The company, however, does not effectively oversee FMLA leave once employees begin using it because 1) it has not consistently communicated oversight responsibilities to supervisors, and 2)company systems do not allow supervisors to effectively track FMLA leave approvals. As a result, many supervisors do not track FMLA leave at all. More broadly, without adequate tracking tools, the company does not have reliable data on FMLA leave use companywide.
Without more effective management of FMLA leave, the unpredictable nature of FMLA-related absences—and the company’s limited visibility regarding them—poses operational, safety, and financial risks.
To address these weaknesses, we recommended that the company define its requirements for managing and monitoring FMLA leave, evaluate solutions to meet such requirements, and select a strategy to strengthen its FMLA leave oversight. In the meantime, we recommended that the company better communicate roles and responsibilities and provide training for employees overseeing FMLA leave.
