Filing complaints of prohibited personnel practices or other prohibited activities.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 5

(a) (1) Discrimination, including discrimination based on marital status or political affiliation ( (2) Soliciting or considering improper recommendations or statements about any individual requesting, or under consideration for, a personnel action; (3) Coercing political activity, or engaging in retaliation for refusal to engage in political activity; (4) Deceiving or obstructing any individual with respect to competition for employment; (5) Influencing any individual to withdraw from competition to improve or injure the employment prospects of another individual; (6) Granting an unauthorized preference or advantage to any individual to improve or injure the employment prospects of another individual; (7) Nepotism involving a covered relative as defined at 5 U.S.C. 3110(a)(3); (8) Retaliation for whistleblowing (whistleblowing is generally defined as the disclosure of information by an individual who reasonably believes that the information evidences a violation of any law, rule, or regulation; gross mismanagement; a gross waste of funds; an abuse of authority; a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety; or censorship related to scientific research or the integrity of the scientific process if the censorship will cause one of the aforementioned categories of wrongdoing); (9) Retaliation for: (i) Exercising certain grievance, complaint, or appeal rights; (ii) Providing testimony or other assistance to any individual exercising such grievance, complaint, or a

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 5:§ 1800.2