Labor Investigator

The primary duty of this position is the conduct of civil and criminal investigations of individuals and labor organizations that have or may violate provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). The incumbent will plan, direct, and conduct compliance and enforcement activities within an assigned geographic area.

This is a career ladder progression position; the duties described below are at the full performance level (GS-12). Incumbents hired at or below the GS-9 grade level will serve in a developmental capacity, wherein the work is less complex in nature and the supervisor, or a senior level employee provides specific instruction and guidance. At the GS-12 grade level, the incumbent will perform the following:

• Participating in meetings and conferences with union officials and their attorneys and/or accountants and enforcement staff of various state and federal agencies, including the Regional Solicitor and United States Attorneys on civil and criminal matters.
• Serving as a team member on complex civil and criminal investigations.
  Conducting assigned segments of the investigation and preparing drafts of appropriate portions of the investigative report.
• Preparing comprehensive, well-documented, sign-off quality reports of investigative findings and recommending appropriate disposition.
  Planning, developing, and conducting complex civil/criminal investigations, compliance audits, supervised elections and enforcement activities.
• Conducting interviews and compliance assistance activities.
• Independently analyzing the operation of large union entities; resolving serious obstacles to the progress of the investigation; or overcoming severe hostility encountered during enforcement activities.
• Researching, investigating, analyzing, and examining accounting and financial records and the structure, philosophies, policies, and operating practices of labor organizations; discovering and developing leads; gathering evidence; determining when investigative depositions should be taken; and, when appropriate, requesting grand jury and agency subpoenas to secure evidence and develop testimony.
• Work Environment: Initial assignments are typically performed in office settings, but usually require extensive additional on-site investigative work. This on-site work may occur during evening or other irregular hours in workplaces of union officials or other persons at work sites that include unsafe and crime ridden urban areas, factories, union office buildings, construction building sites, mine operations, trucking terminals, warehouses, etc. and could expose the Investigator to some personal and environmental risks in order to accomplish required mission. Investigative activities may bring the Investigator into direct contact with individuals facing potential criminal charges and/or loss of their livelihood or exposes the employee to highly contested and often hostile internal union struggles. These and other situations described above may place investigator in physical jeopardy.