GAO: Justice needs governance structure to guide workforce planning, and to hold leadership accountable for progress on workforce goals. Image: Zolnierek/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffAt a recent Senate hearing, a GAO witness reinforced that agency’s recommendation that the Justice Department develop a strategic workforce plan for addressing the backlog of cases before its immigration judges.
That backlog most recently stood at 2.2 million cases, four times the number pending in 2017 when the GAO first made that same recommendation, the official told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. While the department has taken several steps since that report, in a follow-up study earlier this year, the GAO found that the Executive Office for Immigration Reform “had not yet developed a strategic workforce plan or set workforce planning goals consistent with GAO’s prior recommendation.”
The latest report also found that the EOIR “does not have a governance structure to guide its workforce planning efforts and hold leadership accountable for progress on workforce goals. Specifically, EOIR had not assigned and documented roles and responsibilities for workforce planning and implementation of a strategic workforce plan,” she said.
In a related blog posting, the GAO added that the EOIR “does not have a governance structure to guide its efforts and hold leadership accountable for making progress on workforce goals. The last time EOIR had an agency-wide strategic plan was 2013. Without an overall strategic direction, it is difficult to create an effective workforce plan or ensure workforce planning and human capital processes will support EOIR’s organizational goals.”
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