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[CITE: 5USC6385]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                     Subpart E--Attendance and Leave
 
                            CHAPTER 63--LEAVE
 
                 SUBCHAPTER V--FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE
 
Sec. 6385. Prohibition of coercion

    (a) 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.
    (b) For the purpose of this section--
        (1) 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
        (2) the term ``employee'' means any ``employee'', as defined by 
    section 2105.

(Added Pub. L. 103-3, title II, Sec. 201(a)(1), Feb. 5, 1993, 107 Stat. 
22.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 2 section 1371.
