However, the OSC also may decline to pursue the matter. If you decide to proceed via the OSC, an examiner will consider your complaint and the OSC may seek corrective action from your agency and/or bring your case before the MSPB. In general, once you have selected one path the others will become closed to you. This guide doesn’t cover the merits of those alternatives. If you’re represented by a union, you may be able to file a grievance.If your punishment is directly appealable to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB)-a removal or reduction in pay, for instance-you may skip the OSC and go straight to the MSPB or.If you’re a federal employee who has been punished for speaking up-or even if you were punished because someone else spoke up-you can trigger the WPA’s provisions by filing a complaint with the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), an independent federal agency that’s charged with protecting whistleblowers under the WPA.īe aware that you can seek justice in other ways, too: That’s good for everyone except the bad guys. The idea behind the law is simple: If whistleblowers don’t fear retaliation, they’re more likely to expose bad actors within the government. It protects federal employees from retaliation for disclosing various sorts of wrongdoing at government agencies. The Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA) became law in 1989.
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