§165 Evaluation and audit of Mediation Board

Summary

The Comptroller General must check and audit the Mediation Board’s programs, operations, and spending to make sure they run efficiently and effectively. These reviews must happen at least once every 2 years and can happen more often if needed. The audit must look at things like information management and security (including privacy of personal data), resource and workforce management, procurement and contracting, whether the Board follows good management practices, and how the Board investigates and decides who will represent employees while preventing interference, influence, or coercion. Within 180 days after February 14, 2012, the Comptroller General must do a separate review of how the Board certifies or decertifies employee representation and give recommendations to the Board and the appropriate congressional committees to keep the process fair and reasonable. That review must check current processes and changes since the Board began, say whether those changes match what Congress intended, compare the Board’s procedures with similar federal or state processes, and explain any differences. "Appropriate congressional committees" means the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.