Know Your Federal Employee Rights
Since Inauguration Day, the Trump-Vance Administration and Elon Musk have taken aggressive action to target the federal workforce — putting the lives of those who rely on Social Security, Medicare, VA benefits, and other vital federal services in danger. The Administration’s OMB Director, Russell Vought, has said he wants to put the federal workforce “in trauma.”
The Commonwealth of Virginia is home to about 140,000 civilian federal workers, approximately 18,000 of whom live in Virginia’s Fourth. The Trump-Vance Administration’s dismantling of our federal workforce and civil service demonstrates a blatant disregard for the people whose lives and livelihoods hang in the balance.
To all federal employees: I stand with you, and I will continue to fight for you in Washington. I won’t quit. Please don’t quit either. Know your rights, and know what resources are available to you.
FEDERAL
You can review your employee and appeals rights under federal law here: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/employee-relations/employee-rights-appeals/#url=Appeals
To understand statutory whistleblower protections, click here: https://whistleblower.house.gov/resources/resources-whistleblowers
For more information regarding your right to disability support services as a federal employee, click here: https://www.eeoc.gov/federal-sector/federal-employees-job-applicants
If you are a government employee with information related to the politicization of the federal workforce, the firing of civil servants, and waste, fraud, or abuse of taxpayer dollars, you may reach out anonymously to Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.
NON-GOVERNMENTAL RESOURCES
- Civil Service Strong
- The Justice Connection
- Our Public Service
- Government Accountability Project
- The Signals Network
- POGO
- National Whistleblower Center
- Democracy Forward
LABOR UNIONS
- American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
- American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
- National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU)
- National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE)
- National Active and Retired Federal Employees (NARFE)
For any further questions or concerns, my staff and I are always here to help. Call my Richmond office directly at (804) 486-1840, or send us an email. You can also visit this page for help with a federal agency. You may also share your story with my office here.