Processes Do Not Adequately Reduce the Risk That Outside Employment Activities Will Conflict With Employees' Official Duties

The Director, Workforce Relations Division, should revise internal outside employment guidelines to require employees to resubmit their outside employment requests at least annually and modify the OES to allow for the systemic closure of all requests for which a renewal was not timely received. OES modifications should include the ability to notify any employees whose request was closed.

The Director, Workforce Relations Division, should work with the IRS Information Technology organization to create a plan for housing the OES or to create a new database to ensure that outside employment requests are tracked after the Totally Automated Personnel System is shut down.