Office of Special Counsel

OSC is a small, independent federal agency whose mission is to safeguard the merit-based federal civil service system by protecting federal employees and applicants from prohibited personnel practices, particularly from reprisal for whistle blowing (5 U.S.C. 2302). In addition, OSC operates as a secure channel for federal whistle blower disclosures of wrongdoing (5 U.S.C. 1213); OSC protects the civilian employment and reemployment rights of military service members under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA, 38 U.S.C. 4301-4335); and OSC enforces the Hatch Act's political activity restrictions (5 U.S.C. 1501-1506, 7321-7326) and issues advice to federal, state and local government employees on the application of the Hatch Act. Visit us at https://www.osc.gov/. View More