{"id":17708,"date":"2020-11-23T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/11\/23\/agencies-lack-information-on-underpaid-contract-workers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:46:25","slug":"agencies-lack-information-on-underpaid-contract-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/federal-oversight\/watchdogs\/2020\/11\/23\/agencies-lack-information-on-underpaid-contract-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Agencies lack information on underpaid contract workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Companies that provide contracted security, janitorial and other workers to federal agencies may be underpaying their employees, but agencies lack sufficient information to know which contractors have broken the law, according to a Government Accountability Office report released publicly Nov. 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Service Contract Act requires that companies providing service workers to do jobs in government agencies must pay those employees at least the prevailing rate in wages and benefits that other such private sector workers receive in that location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Labor is tasked with enforcing this law and investigating contractors that have reportedly paid their employees less than the prevailing rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/2019\/03\/29\/the-shutdown-is-long-over-but-these-workers-are-still-unpaid\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-172221526-Cropped.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">The shutdown is long over, but these workers are still unpaid<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Workers who perform everyday tasks at federal buildings such as cleaning, serving food and providing security will not see back pay from the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past five years, over 5,000 compliance investigations have led to over $220 million in back wages paid to federal contract service workers, according to the GAO report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some contractors are also debarred as a result of DOL investigations, meaning that they cannot be awarded federal contracts for three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But according to the report, agencies do not always receive necessary information from DOL on debarments to let them know that they should not contract with a particular provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen recording SCA debarments, DOL does not always include the unique identifier for an employer so that contracting agencies can accurately identify debarred firms,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDOL also does not have a process that consistently or reliably informs contracting agencies about SCA violations by employers. 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