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[CITE: 5USC6338]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                     Subpart E--Attendance and Leave
 
                            CHAPTER 63--LEAVE
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--VOLUNTARY TRANSFERS OF LEAVE
 
Sec. 6338. 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 any right which such 
employee may have with respect to contributing, receiving, or using 
annual leave under this subchapter.
    (b) For the purpose of subsection (a), the term ``intimidate, 
threaten, or coerce'' includes promising to confer or conferring any 
benefit (such as an appointment, promotion, or compensation), or 
effecting or threatening to effect any reprisal (such as deprivation of 
appointment, promotion, or compensation).

(Added Pub. L. 100-566, Sec. 2(a), Oct. 31, 1988, 102 Stat. 2837.)
