Retaliation for Whistleblowing

This video from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel provides an overview of the prohibitions concerning whistleblower retaliation in the federal workplace.

[@Fireflies779]

What a crock of shit!! I myself, being a whistleblower that followed the correct "process," had no protection against retaliation. I still haven't recovered from that lovely experience. Statistics say that 75% of whistleblowers, that followed the steps not only experienced retaliation within their workplace including, harassment, humiliation, intimidation and termination of their employment. I can back this up with what I and my family went through once I made that decision. They also don't mention how these companies intimidate families in the aftermath of calling out horrendous things. Also.. look at Assange and Snowden where we're their rights and protection.. one is in jail and the other in exile, where is their protection? I believe new improvements in legislation must be updated soon and help protect whistleblowers world wide. They are assets not liabilities!! They stand in the moral goodness and are honest about what they report in protection of others. Boom. 💫😎

[@LadyJudah]

I had no clue of this Office as I filed EEO in 2002 2004. Case trickery all the way to 2024. Officials did nothing

[@sandilobianco6734]

We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.

[@luke184lisa]

I was horribly retaliated against for exposing wrongdoing at the V.A.. the V.A made me so sick that I had to get a psychologist to speak with about the toxicity. TO DATE: NOT A SINGLE AMERICAN LEADER HAS INVESTIGATED my case. Maybe black employees don’t count.. I was fired for disclosing wrongdoing. I am homeless now. I appreciate your video.. but OSC was part of the problem NOT part of the solution. I am homeless because I made a disclosure that our vets were in danger from lack of oversight. I have enough evidence to sink a ship. My own country not only injured me but more importantly our veterans.. specially 11,000 vets. The Law does NOT PROTECT WHISTLEBLOWERS LIKE MYSELF.. thanks for ruin my life OSC!

[@wulfbasser1]

Telling you right now, whistleblower laws are NOT ENFORCED! Filed an EEO case. Proven retaliation, based on a protected acts. The results even with proof, lead only to me getting threats via phone call and even having a window busted out at my house! I have cameras by the way. The department of Homeland security's attorney admitted they can't deny my allegations, but says they have not idea how to settle this, but they want to settle . I claimed whistleblower status and the internally EEO investigator omitted my claim! Do you guys help people like me. I've been granted a hearing. Less than a month. I have the ROI and the rebuttals proving my allegations were true.

[@islandhi2u]

I 💯 approve this comment. I have to remind myself that God see's all this injustice an all these people who do not do their jobs WILL answer to Him. Bigg Hugg

[@WomanMilitaryVeteran]

I agree that Office of [Use-LESS] Counsel (OSC) does NOT care and are Use-LESS for the majority of whistleblowers. #Truth #whistleblower

[@WomanMilitaryVeteran]

Agreed! "whistleblower laws are NOT ENFORCED!"@@wulfbasser1

[@adamtedder1012]

Yup there is zero recourse. All the checks and balances are broken.

[@marcusboyd2376]

Unfortunately, this video is not true. On your first communication, the OSC will say “we’re a small office”….etc. I reported a federal employee that falsified documentation intentionally. I was then summoned to a Magistrate Court by that individual, for submitting anonymous information to their job. How is that not a consciousnesses of guilt. I relayed this to the OSC, because it was retaliation. The OSC, refused to investigate the initial complaint (falsification). Then used circular logic about the Whistleblower. Basically saying the agency did not retaliate against me. It is the the people/employees within the agency that retaliate. I’m a paying union member & the local President, informed me that I would not have the Union Support. Furthermore, the President relayed to me that I will get fired if I keep pursuing this & the Federal Government does not want to look bad. I even asked my deputy director about it, and they refused to respond. The Ops Director & CDC Director previous & current are aware of this ordeal. No one will even respond to me about it. In all my advice would be to not report wrongdoing, because it’s obvious that integrity is subjective.

[@WomanMilitaryVeteran]

I agree that Office of [Use-LESS] Counsel (OSC) does NOT care and are Use-LESS for the majority of whistleblowers. #Truth #whistleblower

[@meeshmeeshelle6326]

In other words… “The Agency investigated itself and has found no wrong doing”. Case dismissed.

[@marcusboyd2376]

FACT! I mean I still can’t believe that I was summoned to Court for whistleblowing. The allegations that I reported, is very severe. I mean a violation of a law. Then the OSC dismissed it. Leave that small office (OSC) alone.

[@Datajustice]

CDC is trash

[@joycearmstrong141]

For an agency to refuse to hire an applicant because he has a lawsuit pending that involves an entity of the same jurisdiction, is a violation. 7:29

[@WomanMilitaryVeteran]

The Office of (Use-LESS) Counsel does NOT care about whistleblowers. They refused me help and strung me along for months. The Office of (Use-LESS) Counsel enabled the retaliation in my case by doing NOTHING and wasting my precious time. The Office of (Use-LESS) Counsel LOVES to politic and is solely focused on their own career advancement cherry picking high profile cases for their own gain and PR. I was a Veterans Affairs Whistleblower that was retaliated against. The Office of (Use-LESS) Counsel is a horrible and useless organization. This list includes liars, enablers, and crooks, among others: * Politicians * Office of [Use-LESS] Counsel (OSC) * The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs * Office of Resolution [MIS]-Management (ORM) * Merit-(LESS) System Protection Board (MSPB) * (UN)-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

[@adamtedder1012]

Yup. 100% agree. Everything is broken now. There is no checks and balances.

[@meeshmeeshelle6326]

Your office may protect Federal Employees, but you do nothing to protect private sector employees working for Federal Contractors who violate the laws. I am a State Whistleblower who assisted state agencies through my complaint and mounds of evidence used to administratively fine their licensee who violated numerous laws. He fired me and has continuously retaliated and libeled me publicly and somehow that agency saw it fit to accept the fines and reinstate my employer’s state licenses. Nobody has even attempted to make me whole. The court is now failing me through protecting that business because they’re a vendor for their court systems so my attorney was threatened with sanctions if he did not withdraw. He withdrew and now my employer’s attorney is suing me for filing a frivolous lawsuit when all I wanted to do was not break the law. I am proof positive that no good deed goes unpunished and government offices/departments/agencies/etc. do not really care about protecting those of us who abide by the law. Even worse, they contribute to further harming us because they’ll send the criminals back into the workforce to create more victims so the government can collect more fines and so the vicious cycle repeats. The entire system is corrupt and while this video should be inspiring and provide hope to those of us who have been violated, I can assure everyone that nobody is actually protecting those of us who abide by the law. These feel good videos are just slick marketing ploys to me until I can see some action with my case. Somebody prove me wrong.

[@adamtedder1012]

Don't feel bad they don't protect federal employees either. The system is completely broken everywhere.

[@jacquelynpinckneyhackett5169]

Thanks for doing this video. I found it clear, concise and very helpful.

[@casno2]

This video is as misleading as the reality they care or are here to help, they are as much part of the problem as the individuals who violated your rights, and or broke laws doing it. 1. I have files more than a few OSC companies and provided substantial evidence over years that is always minimized and rejected 90% of the time no matter how damning your evidence is or deserving of an investigation. In most case your just given the right to be heard by the MSPB. 2. It takes them months to years to complete an investigation even if your evidence is a smoking gun. The energy they put into your investigation is minimal, they don’t update you on progress often and you will be luck if your case is not transferred between OSC attorneys less than twice. 3. They are very pro agency, everything they can do to minimize and discourage you from pushing forward they will. In the end they encourage you to accept what the agency offers as more than fair when it doesn’t even scratch the surface to make up or satisfy what the agency individuals have done to you, your career or your family. And if you don’t accept, they threaten (and will) abandon you closing your case without making them (agency) fix what they’ve done even if it was an outrageous violation of law, rule or regulation. In the end no matter how long it took for them to finish (3 yrs for me) in the end they tell you they are sorry, the system is what it is and they are limited in what they can do (which is not so true) and it is what it is. They decide what that your pain and suffering is worth a very low dollar amount they call the precedence at this time, and sides with the agency encouraging you to take it, then allows the agency to go on doing the same things to you and others over and over on the taxpayers dime. So you still lose even if you win, same difference with the Merit System Protection Board (MSPB). This is no different than how civil rights were accepted and conspired against in a culture among the privileged in the 50s and 60’s. The deck is stacked and they (agency/the privileged) have a license to do whatever they want to you, with no fear of punishment. Them saying they are here for you is a flat out lie that only looks good on paper until you go to them for help and learn the truth. Then if you accept the scraps they toss at you, they gage you from talking about it so no one will know if you do sell out (sell your soul for pennies) so OSC or MSPB can drop your complaint. The only thing you can do is what they want (even if it’s against the law) in this day and time or leave your career, because they are all in bed together against victims. FACT! CJ

[@faithhopkins9261]

Has not helped me even a little

[@adamtedder1012]

Never does. The system is completely broken. No checks or balances.

[@jamesrichard3704]

Just like the Constitution it all sounds good on paper . No one has atood with me and everything i proved.

[@americanpeasant2815]

It looks to me like every person commenting here is at the understanding that nobody fights for the whistleblower and nobody fought for them before they became whistleblowers... Whats your response to this common and highly visible pattern?... Do you just make videos so you can sleep at night bcuz you "did all thaf you can do," or do you actually do something?... I have years of proof, in many forms, from paperwork, emails, secure messaages from VA "healthevet" website, Amvets correspondence, vmails and bogus responses from my state's senate seat, along with the same bogus response from a federal "inquiry," where they just mimicked the VA's response bcuz all they did was ask the VA about it, which is a conflict of interest... It's been 20 years and I still add to the proof every month... I've been literally abused, verbally abused, manipulated, dismissed, ignored, which can be fatal when your healthcare "provider" ignores you, or worse... I've also been called in repeatedly for drug tests that I just passed, then passed again, then again... This type of retaliation is centered on discrediting you so you'll shut up, meaning that they succeeded in silencing you... I have 3 DEA crews living in the rental homes arounde bcuz I openly promote Cannabis over alot of unhealthy medications, but I don't use Cannabis, or drink alcohol... This is a whole other level of retaliation that has been going on for 4.5 years, in regards to the close quarters agencies harassing me while breaking laws trying to discredit me so they don't get in trouble for breaking laws... This harassment is a snowball effect from me turning in the actual guys that killed Abby & Libby in Delphi Indiana in 2017... None of the law enforcement entities took me seriously, even after one of the guys tried to kidnap another girl... They ignored me until i forced an interview, then volunteered my DNA... They replaced their "investigation" with rumors and let the killer walk in and out of the Vermilion County Courthouse for over a year without any evidence being taken... This was after he picked up an Obstructing A Peace Officer charge when they approached him after I turned him in... The local law enforcement entities committed multiple levels of derilection of duty, as did the entities in the Delphi area... The first federal crew to move in was a small group of midtwenty somethings who weren't prepared for duty... Their incompetence and crimes, which were then piling up, as they still are, made it possible for the ISP to arrest the easiest target, who also was just trying to help... Mr.Allen is innocent and so am I, but, since many officials made mistakes over the years, which continue to still be made and perpetuated, they are forced to cover it up and try to bury me, as opposed to doing the right thing... Each law enforcement entity in both states, Indiana & Illinois, got involved at different times, at different degrees and for different reasons... These reasons are from just not reporting, not reporting accurately, not reporting honestly and then on to the more serious corruption, meaning intentional misguidance for warrants, arresting an innocent civilian, silencing those who oppose, including trying to get rid of Mr.Allen's defense team and being motivated by an election year and the Lance Ito Effect, meaning being famous for being connected to the case... This tragic chain of events is too long, in depth and twisted to share here, or even just in literal terms, but its one of those things that are so unbelievable that you couldn't make it up, like Truth being stranger than fiction... I'd be willing to bet that if you do anything in regards to action in this matter, you'll turn this comment over to the authorities, which is the exact same issue I brought to the light in regards to the conflict of interest that I mentioned about the senator who just had an office flunky respond with the same response as the VA... That's not action... That's imminent dismissal... At this point, these videos and every piece of "advice" in these arenas are just energy thieves and false hope generators for those who don't yet know any better... You'll see me again, in a big way, whether you choose to assist, or just watch... They haven't broken me and they never will, then you'll wish you helped in some way, so I don't highlight the false hope in these types of videos and "helpful" instruction as being void of substance, just like I'm going to do in regards to the VA, the senate, a few federal agencies, a few more local & state entities and the corrupt sections of society and it's corrupt "pillars" of "our" communities... Let that Sync in...

[@paulvantreese1402]

I got alquida in y'all cia and in Washington also down in Nebo.

[@CVenza]

What a load of Crock! I had contacted your agency multiple times with no assistance available. Why do you lie? Say something OSC! Like TELLING THE TRUTH.

[@goldenflower222]

This is disgusting