5 U.S.C. § 6385 — Prohibition of coercion
submitted 33 years ago by Pub. L. 103-3 to r/title-5-GOVERNMENT-ORGANIZATION-AND-EMPLOYEES · 99 words · no verdicts yet
An employee may not intimidate, threaten, or coerce another employee to interfere with rights under this subchapter. The section also explains that these terms include offering benefits or threatening reprisals, and identifies which employees are covered.
(a) An employee may not directly or indirectly intimidate, threaten, or coerce another employee, or try to do so, to interfere with that person’s rights under this subchapter. (b) For this section, (1) “intimidate, threaten, or coerce” includes promising or giving a benefit such as an appointment, promotion, or compensation, or taking or threatening a reprisal such as withholding one, and (2) “employee” means an “employee” under section 2105. This section does not define the quoted terms “intimidate, threaten, or coerce” or “employee.”
An employee shall not directly or indirectly intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other employee for the purpose of interfering with the exercise of any rights which such other employee may have under this subchapter.
For the purpose of this section—
the term “intimidate, threaten, or coerce” includes promising to confer or conferring any benefit (such as appointment, promotion, or compensation), or taking or threatening to take any reprisal (such as deprivation of appointment, promotion, or compensation); and
the term “employee” means any “employee”, as defined by section 2105.
Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 103–3, title II, § 201(a)(1), Feb. 5, 1993, 107 Stat. 22.)
- 1993Enacted · Pub. L. 103-3 · 107 Stat. 22
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 103-3 on 1993-02-05.
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