{"id":29564,"date":"2020-10-31T09:33:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T14:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=29564"},"modified":"2020-10-31T09:33:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T14:33:05","slug":"usps-employees-reminded-of-hatch-act-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/10\/31\/usps-employees-reminded-of-hatch-act-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Employees Reminded of Hatch Act Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"

USPS News Link<\/a> – 10\/30\/20 – The Postal Service is continuing to remind employees of the rules surrounding political activity under the Hatch Act.<\/p>\n

The Hatch Act is a law that prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activity while on duty, while wearing a federal uniform or identification badge, while on federal property or while inside a federal vehicle.<\/p>\n

Under the law, USPS employees are also prohibited from engaging in any of the following activities:<\/p>\n

\u2022 While at work, wearing apparel containing messages or images for or against a partisan political candidate, party or group<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bringing partisan political materials to work<\/p>\n

\u2022 Making statements at work for or against a partisan political candidate, party or group<\/p>\n

\u2022 Affixing partisan political bumper stickers to postal vehicles or personal vehicles while delivering the mail<\/p>\n

\u2022 Posting, liking, tweeting or retweeting partisan political content to social media while on duty or while using postal equipment<\/p>\n

Violations of the Hatch Act may be referred to the Office of the Special Counsel, a federal agency that oversees enforcement of the Hatch Act. Penalties for violating the law can include suspension, removal and debarment from federal employment and a civil fine.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Ethics Blue page<\/em><\/a>\u00a0has more Hatch Act resources, including a\u00a0\u201c<\/em>Let\u2019s Talk Politics!<\/em><\/a>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0fact sheet. Employees who have questions can contact their local field law office or send an email to\u00a0ethics.help@usps.gov<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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USPS News Link – 10\/30\/20 – The Postal Service is continuing to remind employees of the rules surrounding political activity under the Hatch Act. The Hatch Act is a law that prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activity while on duty, while wearing a federal uniform or identification badge, while on federal property or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29564","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\/29564","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=29564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29565,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29564\/revisions\/29565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}