EEOC OIG SEMIANNUAL REPORT TO THE U.S. CONGRESS

The OIG employs modern technologies and tools to ensure good financial management of 
American taxpayers' investment in the OIG. I have tasked my staff to develop a structured process 
to identify and perform our high-risk evaluation work. In order to do so, I have also implemented 
an Effectiveness and Efficiency Review Initiative within OIG. This initiative allows senior OIG 
staff to collaborate on enhancing our efforts to identify the highest mission-related risk areas, and 
ultimately conduct targeted evaluations of such areas. This initiative is manned by senior OIG 
staffers who work together to identify better high-risk areas associated with the Agency’s mission-
critical programs and conduct targeted reviews to address risk areas and identify effective and 
efficient solutions. Applying this new concept within the OIG while merging technologies and 
other innovative approaches and ideas to our work has aided in improved performance regarding 
the OIG’s core mission of providing independent, objective, standards-based oversight, and 
enforcement to protect EEOC programs and the people they serve from fraud, waste, and abuse. 
Furthermore, the OIG staff has fully returned to the office as required by President Donald Trump’s 
Executive Order. Our employees have effectively transitioned to in-office posture and continue to 
maintain high individual and team productivity. I would like to personally thank the OIG's 
dedicated team of talented professionals who have demonstrated resilience and flexibility during 
this time of transition. 
Finally, I would like to congratulate former Commissioner Andrea R. Lucas for being named by 
President Trump to serve as the Agency’s Acting Chair. We look forward to working with Acting 
Chair Lucas and her staff in helping to make the EEOC a model workplace. We would also like to 
thank the EEOC senior leadership for their ongoing cooperation, and Congress for its continuing 
support of the OIG’s mission.