United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Health, Education, and Human Services Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1995-10-24 monographic deposited born digital 93 p. GA 1.13:HEHS-96-8 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-8 P0b002ee180398625 f:he96008 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-8 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-8 HEHS-96-8 Contract violations Federal procurement Labor law Collective bargaining Contract noncompliance Administrative remedies Employment discrimination Proposed legislation Employee dismissal Labor-management relations Federal Contractor Labor Relations Enforcement Act of 1995 GSA Federal Procurement Data System Letter Report HEHS A15539 Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the extent to which federal contractors violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), focusing on: (1) the characteristics associated with these NLRA violators; and (2) ways to improve federal contractors' compliance with NLRA.<p/>GAO found that: (1) in 1993, 6 firms held 90 percent of the federal contracts awarded to NLRA violators; (2) the cases brought to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) mainly involved workers' rights, collective bargaining, and discrimination violations; (3) NLRB remedies mainly included the reinstatement of unlawfully fired workers, restoration of workers' job status, payment of back wages or benefits, collective bargaining orders, and orders to cease threatening workers with job loss; (4) the NLRB remedies affected nearly 1,000 individual workers and thousands of additional workers represented by 12 bargaining units; (5) most of the NLRA violators were Departments of Defense and Energy contractors; (6) 15 of the 80 violators had to reinstate or restore more than 20 individuals each, NLRB cease and desist orders issued against them, or a history of NLRA violations; and (7) NLRB could enhance its enforcement of NLRA by collecting judgments against violators from their federal contract awards and increasing coordination with the General Services Administration (GSA) to identify such violators. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-8/html/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-8.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-8/pdf/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-8.pdf GAO/HEHS-96-8 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-8 Letter Report GAO/HEHS-96-8; Worker Protection: Federal Contractors and Violations of Labor Law; Contract violations Federal procurement Labor law Collective bargaining Contract noncompliance Administrative remedies Employment discrimination Proposed legislation Employee dismissal Labor-management relations Federal Contractor Labor Relations Enforcement Act of 1995 GSA Federal Procurement Data System