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[CITE: 5USC7503]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
           Subpart F--Labor-Management and Employee Relations
 
                       CHAPTER 75--ADVERSE ACTIONS
 
              SUBCHAPTER I--SUSPENSION FOR 14 DAYS OR LESS
 
Sec. 7503. Cause and procedure

    (a) Under regulations prescribed by the Office of Personnel 
Management, an employee may be suspended for 14 days or less for such 
cause as will promote the efficiency of the service (including 
discourteous conduct to the public confirmed by an immediate 
supervisor's report of four such instances within any one-year period or 
any other pattern of discourteous conduct).
    (b) An employee against whom a suspension for 14 days or less is 
proposed is entitled to--
        (1) an advance written notice stating the specific reasons for 
    the proposed action;
        (2) a reasonable time to answer orally and in writing and to 
    furnish affidavits and other documentary evidence in support of the 
    answer;
        (3) be represented by an attorney or other representative; and
        (4) a written decision and the specific reasons therefor at the 
    earliest practicable date.

    (c) Copies of the notice of proposed action, the answer of the 
employee if written, a summary thereof if made orally, the notice of 
decision and reasons therefor, and any order effecting \1\ the 
suspension, together with any supporting material, shall be maintained 
by the agency and shall be furnished to the Merit Systems Protection 
Board upon its request and to the employee affected upon the employee's 
request.
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should be ``affecting''.
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(Added Pub. L. 95-454, title II, Sec. 204(a), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 
1135.)
