Federal Manager's Daily Report

The Office of Special Counsel has announced it successfully removed from federal service a USPS employee who twice ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in violation of the Hatch Act.

The act prohibits federal employees from running as candidates in partisan elections, as well as from soliciting contributions and promoting candidates for political office while on duty and/or in the federal workplace. Most federal employees know this but it’s something to keep in mind as primary campaigns pick up steam and work to energize voters, especially as OSC has come down on feds recently for violating the Hatch Act by using social media.

OSC also said it succeeded in getting an IRS taxpayer representative suspended for 100 days. In that case the employee admitted to pestering taxpayers over the phone with a chant to re-elect President Obama when they called in.