Title 5 — Government Organization and EmployeesRelease 119-73

§6132 Prohibition of coercion

Title 5 › Part PART III— - EMPLOYEES › Subpart Subpart E— - Attendance and Leave › Chapter CHAPTER 61— - HOURS OF WORK › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - FLEXIBLE AND COMPRESSED WORK SCHEDULES › § 6132

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Employees may not bully, pressure, or threaten coworkers to stop them from using certain scheduling and overtime choices. This covers rights under sections 6122 through 6126 to pick arrival and departure times, work credit hours, or compensatory time instead of overtime pay, and rights under 6127(b)(1) and 6127(b)(2) about voting on or asking for a compressed schedule. Bullying or threats include offering or giving benefits like appointment, promotion, or pay, or threatening or carrying out punishments such as taking those things away.

Full Legal Text

Title 5, §6132

Government Organization and Employees — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(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).

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Citation

5 U.S.C. § 6132

Title 5 — Government Organization and Employees

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73