[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR1209.1]

[Page 85]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
               CHAPTER II--MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD
 
PART 1209_PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES FOR APPEALS AND STAY REQUESTS OF PERSONNEL 
 
                 Subpart A_Jurisdiction and Definitions
 
Sec.  1209.1  Scope.


    This part governs any appeal or stay request filed with the Board by 
an employee, former employee, or applicant for employment where the 
appellant alleges that a personnel action defined in 5 U.S.C. 2302(a)(2) 
was threatened, proposed, taken, or not taken because of the appellant's 
whistleblowing activities. Included are individual right of action 
appeals authorized by 5 U.S.C. 1221(a), appeals of otherwise appealable 
actions allegedly based on the appellant's whistleblowing activities, 
and requests for stays of personnel actions allegedly based on 
whistleblowing.