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​​Prohibited Personnel Practices 

• Discriminate
• Solicit or consider employment recommendations based on factors other than personal knowledge or records of job related abilities or characteristics
• Coerce the political activity of any person
• Deceive or willfully obstruct any person from competing for employment
• Influence any person to withdraw from job competition
• Give an unauthorized preference or advantage to improve or injure the prospects of any particular person for employment
• Engage in nepotism
• Take or threaten to take a personnel action because of whistleblowing
• Take or threaten to take a personnel action because of the exercise of a lawful appeal, complaint, or grievance right
• Discriminate based on personal conduct which does not adversely affect the performance of the employee or other employees
• Knowingly take or fail to take personnel action in the violation of veteran's preference laws
• Violate any law, rule or regulation implementing or directly concerning merit system principles
• Implement or enforce a nondisclosure agreement or policy lacking notification of whistleblower rights

• Access the medical record of an employee or applicant, as part of, or in furtherance of any of the above-listed prohibitions​​

Date last updated: 4/9/2020