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[Question] Do employee representatives get official time to work on EEO complaints filed by VA employees? [Answer] 
Yes. VA employees who serve as representatives for other employees during the processing of their EEO complaints are entitled to a reasonable amount of official time to assist their clients with the presentation of their complaints and to respond to requests for information from the agency or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), as long as they are in duty status. Generally, representatives are provided the same rights to official time as the complainant employee. However, only the complainant may raise an allegation that the agency improperly denied a representative’s request for official time.
FAQs: Official Time - Office of Resolution Management (ORM)