Disabled Federal Employees Protection Act

This bill, introduced in 2004, aims to protect federal employees with disabilities from losing their jobs when a government agency decides to outsource its work to private contractors. Under the proposal, executive agencies would be prohibited from terminating a disabled employee's position solely because that specific function or activity is being converted to a contract performance.

For citizens working in the federal sector, this legislation would provide a layer of job security by ensuring that "competitive sourcing"—the process of opening government jobs to private sector bids—does not result in the displacement of workers with disabilities. The bill includes an exception for certain nonprofit agencies serving the blind or severely handicapped, provided the affected employee is offered an equivalent position elsewhere in the government or within that nonprofit organization.