Reading Room Document

Authority of the Department of Labor to Control the Disclosure of Federal Employees' Compensation Act Records Held by the United States Postal Service

The Federal Employees' Compensation Act gives the Department of Labor the authority to control and limit the disclosure of FECA records held by the United States Postal Service, and DOL's FECA regulations prohibit USPS from disclosing FECA records in a manner inconsistent with DOL's Privacy Act routine uses. The Department of Labor's regulatory regime for FECA records is consistent with and furthers the purposes of the Privacy Act. Neither the Postal Reorganization Act nor the National Labor Relations Act authorizes USPS to control the disclosure of FECA records. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/olc/file/2012-11-16-dol-usps-feca/download.

November 16, 2012