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D.C. Law Library - § 1–615.52. Definitions.
↪ Subchapter XV-A. Whistleblower Protection.
↪ § 1–615.52. Definitions.
§ 1–615.51. Findings and declaration of purpose.
§ 1–615.53. Prohibitions.
§ 1–615.52. Definitions.
(1) “Contract” means any contract for goods or services between the District government and another entity but excludes any collective bargaining agreement.
(2) “Contributing factor” means any factor which, alone or in connection with other factors, tends to affect in any way the outcome of the decision.
(4) “Illegal order” means a directive to violate or to assist in violating a federal, state or local law, rule, or regulation.
(5)(A) “Prohibited personnel action” includes but is not limited to: recommended, threatened, or actual termination, demotion, suspension, or reprimand; involuntary transfer, reassignment, or detail; referral for psychiatric or psychological counseling; failure to promote or hire or take other favorable personnel action; or retaliating in any other manner against an employee because that employee makes a protected disclosure or refuses to comply with an illegal order, as those terms are defined in this section.
(i) “Investigation” includes an examination of fitness for duty and excludes any ministerial or nondiscretionary factfinding activity necessary to perform the agency’s mission.
(ii) “Retaliating” includes conducting or causing to be conducted an investigation of an employee or applicant for employment because of a protected disclosure made by the employee or applicant who is a whistleblower.
(7) “Public body” means:
(8) “Supervisor” means an individual employed by the District government who meets the definition of a “supervisor” in § 1-617.01(d) or who has the authority to effectively recommend or take remedial or corrective action for the violation of a law, rule, regulation or contract term, or the misuse of government resources that an employee may allege or report pursuant to this section, including without limitation an agency head, department director, or manager.
(9) “Whistleblower” means an employee who makes or is perceived to have made a protected disclosure as that term is defined in this section.
(Mar. 3, 1979, D.C. Law 2-139, § 1552; as added Oct. 7, 1998, D.C. Law 12-160, § 102(c), 45 DCR 5147; Mar. 11, 2010, D.C. Law 18-117, § 2(a), 57 DCR 896.)
1981 Ed., § 1-616.12.
This section is referenced in § 1-615.58.
D.C. Law 18-117, in par. (5), designated the existing text as subpar. (A) and added subpar. (B); and, in par. (6), substituted “by statute, without restriction to time, place, form, motive, context, forum, or prior disclosure made to any person by an employee or applicant, including a disclosure made in the ordinary course of an employee’s duties,” for “by statute”.