Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email IG proposes improvements based on a Labor Department agency’s response to 2017 hurricanes and wildfires. to facilitate more efficient relief. The Labor Department inspector general issued a report on how the Employment and Training Administration managed its funds from the 2018 Bipartisan Budget Act––following hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and the wildfires in California in 2017––for its National Dislocated Worker Grants program. Under the program, the Employment and Training Administration gives out funds to states to reemploy those who have been laid off following disasters in temporary cleanup and recovery jobs and to make it easier for them to eventually find permanent work.