(a) To facilitate the Committee's review of all migrant farmworker
complaints, including pre and post occupancy housing inspections and the
enforcement strategies of DOL agencies, the Committee shall oversee the
operation of a system of coordinated Complaint/Directed Action Logs
(logs). The logs shall be maintained by each DOL agency and appropriate
SESA and OSHA State agencies.
(b) The logs shall record both the numbers of compliance actions
initiated as a result of complaints and those initiated on the basis of
directed activity. They shall also include a statistical record of all
original referrals both from and to other DOL agencies or federal or
State authorities.
(1) Whenever a complaint is received and/or an investigation is
completed by an agency, the appropriate official of that agency shall
enter the matter on the log.
(2) Wherever possible, the responsible agency, upon request, shall
inform the complainant of the status of the actions pending, and shall
inform, when applicable, the referring agency.
(3) ESA, OSHA, USES, and the Office of the Solicitor shall be
responsible for preparing the quarterly statistical summary by regions
of the respective agency's compliance activity. This summary shall
include all complaints and compliance actions which (i) were pursued to
completion by the subagency during the reporting period or (ii) were
received during the reporting period or earlier, and are pending. Each
agency also shall report a summary of aging and resource allocation
data. The summary shall be submitted to the National Committee and the
appropriate Regional Committee.
(c) The National Committee staff shall analyze the statistical
summaries and shall recommend National or Regional Committee action
where problems or short-comings are identified. Pursuant to this review,
the National Committee shall take steps to ensure that the responsible
agencies make timely responses to complaints and conduct vigorous
enforcement action.
