Regulations last checked for updates: Jun 14, 2025

Title 5 - Administrative Personnel last revised: May 21, 2025
§ 752.603 - Standard for action.

(a) An agency may take an adverse action under this subpart only for reasons of misconduct, neglect of duty, malfeasance, or failure to accept a directed reassignment or to accompany a position in a transfer of function.

(b) An agency may not take an adverse action under this subpart on the basis of any reason prohibited by 5 U.S.C. 2302.

[74 FR 63532, Dec. 4, 2009, as amended at 85 FR 65987, Oct. 16, 2020; 87 FR 67783, Nov. 10, 2022]
authority: 5 U.S.C. 6329b,7504,7514,and; Sec. 1097, Pub. L. 115-91, 131 Stat. 1621
source: 74 FR 63532, Dec. 4, 2009, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 5 CFR 752.603