SPECIAL AUDIT OF

SPECIAL AUDITOFTHE DEPARTMENT OFLABOR AND INDUSTRY’SBUREAU OF LABOR LAW COMPLIANCESeptember 2002TABLE OF CONTENTSPageLetter from the Auditor General ................................................................................ 1Introduction and Background .................................................................................... 4Executive Summary................................................................................................... 7Recommendations...................................................................................................... 9Findings:Finding No. 1 - BLLC mismanaged its use of purchasing cards andmade unnecessary or inappropriate purchases with them, resultingin waste or misuse of at least $197,073, or approximately 60percent, of the $329,166 in total purchasing card expenditures byBLLC during the period under review........................................................... 12Conclusions and Recommendations ............................................................. 21L&I’s Response to Finding No. 1.................................................................. 22The Department of the Auditor General’s Comments .................................. 23Finding No. 2 - The Deputy Secretary/BLLC director usedCommonwealth-owned cellular telephones to make at least 1,000personal long distance telephone calls during a two-year period .................. 25Conclusions and Recommendations ................ ...