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Labor unveils $400K automation project
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Posted on Oct 14 2005
The Labor Department unveiled new hardware and software equipment at its San Antonio offices yesterday, promising that the processing of applications at the department would become faster with the government’s $400,000-automation project.
Labor and Immigration Identification and Documentation System director Tom Torres said the automation would not only make the processing of applications faster, but reduce the risk of misplacing documents as the processing would be done online.
With the automation, an application filed with the department will be scanned and routed for review and determination to the appropriate desks online.
Torres said the government launched the project to make the processing of labor applications efficient, as the department receives over 30,000 applications yearly.
Torres added that automation of Immigration applications would soon follow. He also said the automation project at the Labor Department would soon allow employers to file applications online.
Jesse Atoigue, the Labor Department’s acting spokesperson, said the department has been exerting best efforts to expedite the processing of applications to change the old perception of inefficiency at the agency.
“If the applications submitted [applications] with no deficiency, the applications are submitted to the Division of Immigration no more than a week,” Atoigue said.
Atoigue said this would arrest an increase in backlogs related to the processing of labor applications.
