All EEOC employees, contractors, interns, and volunteers are required to cooperate with OIG audits, evaluations, and investigations or face possible administrative action. Cooperation means testifying if asked and providing information relating to the performance of your job-related duties.
Audit and Evaluation reports are public documents and are available on this website.
Audits are objective and systematic assessments of how well offices carry out the EEOC programs and operations and focus on the process.
The Inspector General is statutorily required to prepare semiannual reports for the Chair and Congress [Semi-Annual Reports | EEOC Office of Inspector General]
The OIG has a staff of eleven. The OIG staff positions include: an inspector general, a deputy inspector general, a counsel to the inspector general, a chief technologist, an information technology specialist, auditors (2), evaluators (2), investigators (2), and an administrative assistant.
To maintain independence, the OIG is prohibited from performing any Agency program functions.
The OIG is an independent office created within the EEOC by the Inspector General Act Amendments of 1988. As outlined in the Act, the OIG's primary mission is to prevent and detect fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement and promote economy and government efficiency. The OIG carries out its responsibilities by conducting audits, evaluations, investigations, and other inquiries relating to the EEOC programs and operations.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) contracted with the independent certified public accounting firm of Harper, Rains, Knight & Company, P.A. (HRK) to audit the financial statements of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for fiscal years ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, and to report on EEOC's internal controls over financial reporting, and compliance
with laws, regulations, contracts, grant agreements, and other matters. The contract required that HRK conduct the audit in accordance with U.S. generally accepted government auditing standards (GAGAS) contained in Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) audit guidance, and U.S. Government Accountability Office/Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency Financial Audit Manual.
The Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act of 1982 (FMFIA), P.L.97-255, as well as the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Circular A-123, Management’s Responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Controls, M-16-17, establish specific requirements for management controls.
This semiannual report summarizes the OIG’s activities and accomplishments for the period October 1, 2019, through March 31, 2020. The OIG issued six audit and evaluation reports and one written advisory. The OIG resolved 435 investigative inquiries.