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Department of Labor: Office of the Solicitor

The Office of the Solicitor supports the needs of the Department of Labor's program agencies by providing legal advice, reviewing regulations, proposed legislation and enforcement actions. The program assists the Department of Justice in representing the Secretary of Labor and the Department's agencies in Federal Courts.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The Office of the Solicitor is well managed and has ambitious long-term and annual targets.
  • The program has not had adequate independent program evaluations of sufficient scope or quality to assess the quality of the legal services it provides.
  • The Office of the Solicitor does not have in place sufficient financial management practices to effectively administer all program funds with adequate transparency.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Reviewing the process SOL uses to provide clients with status and/or updates on pending legal advice, as recommended in independent program evaluation.
  • Improving the management of the Solicitor's administrative budget and displaying budget requests in a more transparent manner.
  • Improving the coordination of SOL response to multiple or related requests for the same legal advice, and implementing changes as appropriate to improve that process.

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