The GAO Employees Organization’s independent Elections Committee is pleased to announce that the following individuals will serve as Delegates to the GAO Employees Organization’s Analyst Assembly beginning on November 15, 2016, and serving for the next two years (see below).
  
We congratulate them and extend our thanks to all the nominees!          

​In the near future, we will solicit nominations for the remaining delegates to the GAO Employees Organization Analyst Assembly -- At Large African-American Employees, At Large Age 40 and Over Employees, At Large Asian-American Employees, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Forensic Audits and Investigation Services (FAIS), Health Care (HC), and Information Technology (IT).  Please give some thought to your willingness to serve and speak to those you would want to represent you.

The GAO Employees Organization is seeking comments about GAO management's proposed changes to its order establishing GAO's policies for safeguarding personnel records (2293.1) of GAO employees and others. This GAO policy governs the creation, receipt, development, maintenance, processing, use, distribution, control, preservation, disposition, and safeguarding of personnel records, among other things.
 
GAO management is changing language throughout the order to update references to agency practices.
 
Please click the following link to register for this online survey:
 
http://surveys.gaoemployees.org/index.php/217867?lang=en
 
We invite you to comment on the changes (shown in yellow highlight) in the document version linked here. We are collecting your comments through close of business Eastern Time on October 17, 2016.
 
If you have any questions about the operation of the survey, please contact your GAO Employees Organization survey administrators at surveys@gaoemployees.org. If you have any other questions, please reply to communications@gaoemployees.org, or contact an Analyst Unit officer or delegateor an APSS Unit Interim Council Representative.

Note: This is the second survey on GAO orders currently out for comment. The earlier survey, on Debt Collection (Order 0254.1), will be available through October 4, 2016.

UPDATE 10/12: Thanks to employee comments, the GAO Employees Organization sent a letter of comment to management. This letter of comment is available at this DM link.


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The GAO Employees Organization is seeking comments about GAO management's proposed changes to its order establishing GAO's policies for debt collection (0254.1) from GAO employees and others. This GAO policy is used, for example, to collect debts from former employees who participated in the Student Loan Repayment Program but who depart GAO before their 3-year commitment ends.
 
GAO management is changing language to conform with legal changes (such as referring debts to the U.S. Treasury after 120 days instead of 180), among other things.
 
We invite you to comment on the changes (shown in yellow highlight) in the document version linked here. We are collecting your comments through close of business Eastern time on October 4, 2016.
 
Please click the following link to register for this online survey:
 
http://surveys.gaoemployees.org/index.php/156554
 
If you have any questions about the operation of the survey, please contact your GAO Employees Organization survey administrators at surveys@gaoemployees.org. If you have any other questions, please reply to communications@gaoemployees.org, or contact an Analyst Unit officer or delegateor an APSS Unit Interim Council Representative.