...or mismanagement to the OIG. Specifically, the Act (5 USC, App. 3, Section 7) states: Any employee who has authority to take, direct others to take,...action, shall not, with respect to such authority, lake or threaten to take any action against any employee as a reprisal for making a complaint or disclosing...

...of personnel management without regard to political affiliation. . . 5 USC §2302(b)(l) Any employee who has authority to take, direct others to take,...action, shall not, with respect to such authority discriminate for or against any employee or applicant for employment (E) on the basis of marital status...

...subject/subjects of the investigation or their representatives without approval of the OIG. i. Any employee who has authority to take, direct others to take,...recommend, or approve any personnel action shall not take or threaten to take any action against any employee as a reprisal for making a complaint or disclosing...

...subject/subjects of the investigation or their representatives without approval of the OIG. 1. Any employee who has authority to take, direct others to take,...recommend, or approve any personnel action shall not take or threaten to take any action against any employee as a reprisal for making a complaint or disclosing...

...inquiry by this Office. It is a prohibited personnel practice to take or fail to take, or to threaten to take or fail to take, a personnel action with respect to any employee or applicant for employment because of a disclosure of information by an employee or applicant for...

...Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986 (31 USC 3801-3812). (19)(A) Any employee of the Administration who has authority to take, direct others to take, recommend, or approve any action with respect to any program or activity conducted pursuant to this subsection or section 7(j),...

...laws may be implicated. For example, the Inspector General Act of 1978 states that "[a]ny employee who has authority to take, direct others to take,...shall not, with respect to such authority, take or threaten to take any action against any employee as a reprisal for making a complaint or disclosing...

...Subsection (a) applies with respect to — (1) an officer or employee of the Department of Defense who has authority to take, direct others to take, recommend, or approve a personnel action with respect to an employee of the Department of Defense; and 633 CH. 81— CIVILIAN...

...employee exercises jurisdiction or control as such an official; (8) take or fail to take, or threaten to take or fail to take, a personnel action with respect to any employee or applicant for employment because of — (A) any disclosure of information by an employee or applicant...

...determines such disclosure is unavoidable during the course of the investigation. Ic) Any employee who has authority to take, direct others to take,...shall not, with respect to such authority, take or threaten to take any action against any employee as a reprisal for making a complaint or disclosing...