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USPS News Link – 5\/26\/20 – The Postal Service is continuing its Hatch Act education campaign.<\/p>\n
The Hatch Act is a law that prohibits postal and other federal employees from engaging in political activity while on duty, while wearing a uniform, while on federal property or while inside a federal vehicle.<\/p>\n
It also prohibits executive branch employees from running for partisan political office and from soliciting or receiving political contributions at any time.<\/p>\n
In a new message, USPS highlights the case of \u201cRenee\u201d \u2014 not her real name \u2014 an employee who twice ran for partisan political office.<\/p>\n
Representatives from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), a federal agency that oversees enforcement of the Hatch Act, warned Renee that running for this office would violate the law. Renee ignored the warnings and won the election.<\/p>\n
An OSC complaint against Renee seeks disciplinary action. Possible penalties include a reprimand, suspension, removal and debarment from federal employment, and a civil fine.<\/p>\n
USPS previously told employees about:<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cTravis,\u201d an employee who\u00a0distributed campaign signs<\/a><\/em>\u00a0at work The\u00a0Ethics Blue page<\/a><\/em>\u00a0has more Hatch Act resources, including a\u00a0\u201c<\/em>Let\u2019s Talk Politics!<\/a><\/em>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0fact sheet. Employees who have questions can contact their local field law office or send an email to\u00a0ethics.help@usps.gov<\/a><\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USPS News Link – 5\/26\/20 – The Postal Service is continuing its Hatch Act education campaign. The Hatch Act is a law that prohibits postal and other federal employees from engaging in political activity while on duty, while wearing a uniform, while on federal property or while inside a federal vehicle. It also prohibits executive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28729,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728\/revisions\/28729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 \u201cBradley,\u201d a letter carrier who\u00a0broadcast a political endorsement<\/a><\/em>\u00a0on social media while on duty and sitting in a postal vehicle
\n\u2022 \u201cDaneisha,\u201d a letter carrier\u00a0who wrote \u201ccorrections\u201d on Political Mail pieces<\/a><\/em>\u201c
\n\u2022 \u201cSandy,\u201d who placed a political candidate\u2019s\u00a0sign in the window of her postal vehicle<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n