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[CITE: 5USC6132]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                     Subpart E--Attendance and Leave
 
                        CHAPTER 61--HOURS OF WORK
 
          SUBCHAPTER II--FLEXIBLE AND COMPRESSED WORK SCHEDULES
 
Sec. 6132. Prohibition of coercion

    (a) An employee may not directly or indirectly intimidate, threaten, 
or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other 
employee for the purpose of interfering with--
        (1) such employee's rights under sections 6122 through 6126 of 
    this title to elect a time of arrival or departure, to work or not 
    to work credit hours, or to request or not to request compensatory 
    time off in lieu of payment for overtime hours; or
        (2) such employee's right under section 6127(b)(1) of this title 
    to vote whether or not to be included within a compressed schedule 
    program or such employee's right to request an agency determination 
    under section 6127(b)(2) of this title.

    (b) For the purpose of subsection (a), the term ``intimidate, 
threaten, or coerce'' includes, but is not limited to, promising to 
confer or conferring any benefit (such as appointment, promotion, or 
compensation), or effecting or threatening to effect any reprisal (such 
as deprivation of appointment, promotion, or compensation).

(Added Pub. L. 97-221, Sec. 2(a)(2), July 23, 1982, 96 Stat. 232.)
