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• Violation of Hatch Act on Social Media Results in 70-Day Suspension, OSC Says - October 24, 2024

• FEDweek

  A VA employee who “violated the Hatch Act by sharing Facebook posts promoting partisan political fundraisers” has agreed to a 70-day unpaid suspension in a settlement with the Office of Special Counsel, the OSC has said.

  The suspension, one of the longer ones announced in recent times in Hatch Act prosecutions, is the latest of a series of cases underscoring the applicability of that law to social media.

  Among other restrictions, the Hatch Act generally prohibits federal employees from knowingly soliciting, accepting, or receiving political contributions for candidates for partisan political office at the federal, state, and local level at any time, and from engaging in political activity while on duty or at work.

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