The Labor Department gave Congress inaccurate and unreliable numbers
that understated the expense of contracting out its employees' work to
private
firms, according to a Government Accountability Office report released
yesterday.
The department's decisions in allowing contractors to compete for
bureaucrats' work -- known as "competitive sourcing" -- also
demoralized workers,
according to most of the 60 agency employees interviewed by the GAO.
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