By Alyssa Rosenberg arosenberg@govexec.com October 6, 2008 The Office of Personnel Management has published new best practices for handling disciplinary actions prompted by discriminatory behavior or retaliation against whistleblowers. The advice, compiled in a Sept. 30 report, is based on interviews with officials at agencies that held employees accountable in whistleblower and anti-discrimination cases in 2006, and received top leadership ratings on the 2006 Federal Human Capital Survey. OPM did not name the agencies consulted. "The United States and its citizens are best served when the federal workplace is free of discrimination and retaliation," the report stated. "In order to maintain a productive workforce that is fully engaged in the many important missions of the government, the rights of employees, former employees...
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