Download or read book Military Personnel Additional Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of Reserve Employment Issues written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DOD has made progress capturing employment information on its reservists since August 2005, but several challenges remain. In August 2004, DOD changed employer reporting by reservists from voluntary to mandatory. The number of reservists reporting employer information to DOD increased from 60 percent in August 2005 to about 77 percent in August 2006. However, we found that reservists have not fully reported civilian employment information, reported employment data are not necessarily current, and DOD s employer verification process is not adequate. Complete and current civilian employer information is important to DOD for several reasons, including its ability to provide sufficient outreach to employers. In August 2004, DOD established a 95 percent goal for reporting employment information for the Selected Reserve and a 75 percent reporting goal for the Individual Ready Reserve and Inactive National Guard. As of August 2006, about 91 percent of Selected Reserve members had reported this information, whereas only 30 percent of Individual Ready Reserve or Inactive National Guard Members with good addresses had complied. Currently, the Army Reserve has met the Selected Reserve reporting goal and the Army National Guard has met the Inactive National Guard reporting goal and nearly met the Selected Reserve goal, while the other reserve components have met neither goal. Moreover, DOD does not have specific time frames for when reserve components are to achieve their reporting goals, and has not directed the service components to take actions to assure compliance. In addition, the DOD instructions requires reservists to update their employment information when changes occur; however, during focus groups we found that reservists generally were not aware of the need to update employer information when employers changed.
Download or read book Military Personnel written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.
Download or read book Military Personnel written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since September 11, 2001, the Department of Defense (DOD) has mobilized more than 500,000 reservists. As reservists demobilize, concerns exist about difficulties with their civilian employment. Public Law 109-163 required GAO to report on reservists' civilian employer data and employment matters. GAO assessed (1) the status of DOD's efforts to capture reservists' employer data; (2) DOD, Labor, Justice, and Office of Special Counsel processes to track and address reservists' USERRA complaints; and (3) the four federal agencies' efforts to track reservists' USERRA complaints related to disabilities incurred while on active duty. GAO reviewed policies and procedures for reporting and tracking complaints; DOD's civilian employer database for reservists and reservists' USERRA complaints; and data reliability and quality checks.
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Download or read book Military Personnel written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reserve Forces written by Gwendolyn Jaffe and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After complaints & questions by reservists & employers concerning the reemployment rights of reservists who had been away from their jobs during the 1991 Gulf War, Congress passed the Uniformed Services Employment & Reemployment Rights Act, which grants service members reemployment rights following military duty & addresses the rights & responsibilities of both reservists & their employers. Due to concern that frequent or long deployments could adversely affect recruiting & retention in the reserves, this report: determines how increases in military operations have affected operational temposÓ of the reserve components & individual reservists, & assesses relations between reservists & their civilian employers.
Download or read book Military Personnel written by Derek B. Stewart and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Uniformed Services Employ. & Reemploy. Rights Act (USERRA) of 1994 protects millions of people, largely Nat. Guard & Reserve members, as they transition between their fed. duties & their civilian employment. The act is intended to eliminate or minimize employ. disadvantages to civilian careers that can result from service in the mil. This report examines the extent to which the Departments of Defense, Labor, Justice, & the Office of Special Counsel have achieved this purpose, specifically, the extent to which the agencies: (1) have data that indicate the level of compliance with USERRA, (2) have efficiently & effectively conducted educational outreach; & (3) have efficiently & effectively addressed servicemember complaints. Tables.
Download or read book Military Personnel written by Brenda S. Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Personnel written by Derek B. Stewart and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 335,000 reserve members have been involuntarily called to active duty since 9/11. This report reviews DoD's mobilization & demobilization (M&D) process. Examines the extent to which: (1) DoD's implementation of a key mobilization authority & personnel policies affect reserve force availability, (2) the Army was able to execute its M&D plans efficiently, & (3) DoD can manage the health of its mobilized reserve forces. DoD should develop a strategic framework with personnel policies linked to human capital goals, update planning assumptions, determine the most efficient mobilization support options, update health guidance, set a timeline for submitting health assessments electronically, & improve medical oversight. Charts & tables.
Download or read book Military personnel written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Personnel written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MILITARY PERSONNEL: Actions Needed to Improve Evaluation and Oversight of Reserve Officers' Training Corps Programs
Download or read book Military Personnel written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since September 11, 2001, the Department of Defense (DOD) has mobilized more than 500,000 National Guard and Reserve members. As reservists return to civilian life, concerns exist about difficulties with their civilian employment. The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) of 1994 protects the employment rights of individuals, largely National Guard and Reserve members, as they transition back to their civilian employment. GAO has issued a number of reports on agency efforts to carry out their USERRA responsibilities. DOD, the Department of Labor (DOL), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) have key responsibilities under the act. GAO was asked to discuss the overall process that the agencies use to implement USERRA. Specifically, this testimony addresses (1) organizational accountability in the implementation of USERRA and (2) actions that the agencies have taken to improve their processes to implement USERRA. For this testimony, GAO drew from its most recent reports on USERRA. USERRA defines individual agency roles and responsibilities; however, it does not designate any single individual or office as accountable for maintaining visibility over the entire complaint resolution process. From the time informal complaints are filed with DOD's Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve through final resolution of formal complaints at DOL, DOJ, or OSC, no one entity has visibility over the entire process. The four agencies have generally been responsive to GAO's recommendations to improve the implementation of USERRA--on outreach to employers, data sharing and trend information, reporting to Congress, and the internal review of DOL's investigators' determinations of USERRA claims.
Download or read book Legislative Hearing on H R 1750 H R 1824 H R 1598 H R 1315 H R 1240 H R 675 H R 513 H R 2259 H R 2475 H R 1632 H R 112 H R 2579 and H R 1370 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reserve Forces written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the 1991 Gulf War, reservists and employers flooded the government with questions and complaints concerning the reemployment rights of reservists who had been away from their jobs during the war. The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 grants service members reemployment rights following military duty and addresses the rights and responsibilities of both reservists and their employers. Despite increases in operations since 1992, the average operational tempo of reserves department-wide increased only slightly between 1992 and 2001--from 43 to 46 days a year. Normal required training periods accounted for the bulk of this total. Several factors hamper Department of Defense (DOD) outreach efforts to both employers and reservists. DOD lacks complete information on who the reservists' employers are, and it has viewed the Privacy Act as a constraint that prevents it from requiring reservists to provide this information. DOD relies on volunteers in the field to carry out many of its outreach activities. However, these volunteers do not always report their contacts with reservists and employers, and, as a result, DOD does not know the full extent of problems that arise and has no assurance that its outreach activities are being implemented consistently. Although DOD has an active program in place to address problems that arise between reservists and their civilian employers, no such program is in place to deal systematically with issues that arise between students and their educational institutions. DOD has not fully analyzed existing data on reservists' operational tempo and recruiting and retention trends on an ongoing basis to determine how deployments might be affecting reservists and their employers. GAO surveys and discussions with reservists and employers further suggest that DOD's activities to enhance reserve-employer relations are not as effective as they could be.
Download or read book Veterans Notice Clarification Act of 2008 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gao 06 1068 Military Personnel written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO-06-1068 Military Personnel: DOD and the Services Need to Take Additional Steps to Improve Mobilization Data for the Reserve Components
Download or read book Military Personnel written by Brenda S. Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) is the largest source of newly commissioned officers for the Department of Defense (DOD). GAO's analysis of DOD data identified more than 9,000 officers commissioned from ROTC in FY 2012. ROTC is critical for producing officers from the nation's colleges and universities to meet the leadership and readiness needs of the armed forces. This report assesses the extent that ROTC programs (1) met goals and minimum annual requirements for producing officers over a 5-year period; (2) have established performance measures and conducted evaluations for managing ROTC programs; and (3) are subject to oversight and have effective processes for communicating with key stakeholders. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.