United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2004-07-22 monographic deposited born digital 20 p. GA 1.13:GAO-04-863 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-863 P0b002ee18039d60b f:d04863 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-863 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-863 GAO-04-863 Cost accounting Court costs Employment discrimination Federal agencies Financial management systems Intergovernmental fiscal relations Investigations into federal agencies Labor costs Lawyers Litigation Reimbursements to government Whistleblowers Treasury Judgment Fund Other Written Product A10959

Allegations of violations of employment discrimination and whistleblower protection laws against federal agencies can end up in federal court, at which point Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys generally take over representation of the agency. Attorneys within Justice's Civil Division and U.S. Attorneys Offices generally handle this type of litigation. The Notifications and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act) requires agencies to repay the Department of the Treasury's Judgment Fund for discrimination and whistleblower protection settlements and judgments paid on their behalf. While the No FEAR Act does not require agencies to reimburse DOJ for costs incurred in defending them in cases covered under the Act, it does require GAO to review how DOJ could ascertain the cost of representing agencies in each case and what the burden of performing this accounting would be. Based on this requirement, our report provides information on (1) the methods DOJ says it could use to account for the personnel and non-personnel costs that it incurs in handling cases covered under No FEAR on a per-case basis and how soon the Department expects it would be able to do so, and (2) how costly DOJ expects it would be to account for each case. We make no recommendations in this report. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-863/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-863.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-863/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-863.pdf GAO-04-863 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-863 Other Written Product GAO-04-863; No FEAR Act: Methods the Justice Department Says It Could Use to Account for Its Per-Case Costs Under the Act; Cost accounting Court costs Employment discrimination Federal agencies Financial management systems Intergovernmental fiscal relations Investigations into federal agencies Labor costs Lawyers Litigation Reimbursements to government Whistleblowers Treasury Judgment Fund Title 926 Section 9510(c)(1)(B) 926 U.S.C. 9510(c)(1)(B) Volume 100 Page 3755-3784 100 Stat. 3755-3784 Volume 110 Page 1936 110 Stat. 1936