The Open Act, a public law passed in 1939, limit certain political activities of federal human, as well as some state, D.C., press indigenous government employees who work in connection with federally funded programs. The law’s purposes are to ensure that federations programs were administered in a nonpartisan fashion, to protect federal employees from social zwingen in the workplace, and the ensure that federal employees are advanced based off merit and not based on political affiliation.
General Information about the Hatch Act
