Part 708 — DOE Contractor Employee Protection Program
Subpart A — General Provisions
- § 708.1— Scope and purpose.
- § 708.2— Definitions.
- § 708.3— Complaints covered.
- § 708.4— Complaints not covered.
- § 708.5— Protected conduct.
- § 708.6— Reasonable fear of serious injury.
- § 708.7— Filing a complaint based on retaliation for refusal to participate.
- § 708.8— Application to pending cases.
- § 708.9— How to file complaints or other documents.
Subpart B — Employee Complaint Resolution Process
- § 708.11— Filing a complaint.
- § 708.12— No expectation of confidentiality.
- § 708.13— Requirements for the form and content of a complaint.
- § 708.14— Exhaustion of grievance-arbitration procedures.
- § 708.15— Time to file a complaint.
- § 708.16— Duplicative actions under State or other law.
- § 708.17— Notification of complaints and opportunities to respond.
- § 708.18— Dismissal for lack of jurisdiction or other good cause.
- § 708.19— Appealing the dismissal of a complaint by the Head of Field Element or EC Director for lack of jurisdiction or other good cause.
- § 708.20— Review by the Secretary of Energy of a decision on appeal of a dismissal.
Subpart C — Investigation, Hearing, and Decision Process
- § 708.21— Referral to the Office of Hearings and Appeals.
- § 708.22— Investigation of complaints.
- § 708.23— Time to issue a report of investigation.
- § 708.24— Hearings not required.
- § 708.25— Appointment of Administrative Judge.
- § 708.26— Time and location of hearings.
- § 708.27— The Administrative Judge may not require that the parties participate in alternative dispute resolution.
- § 708.28— Hearing procedures.
- § 708.29— Burdens of proof.
- § 708.30— Timing for issuing an initial agency decision.
- § 708.31— Procedure for issuing an initial agency decision.
- § 708.32— Appealing an initial agency decision.
- § 708.33— Procedure for appeals.
- § 708.34— Procedure for issuing an appeal decision.
- § 708.35— Review by the Secretary of Energy of an appeal decision.
- § 708.36— Remedies.
- § 708.37— Reimbursement of costs and expenses.
- § 708.38— Implementation of final agency decision.
- § 708.39— The Contract Disputes Act.
- § 708.40— Notice of program requirements.
- § 708.41— Referral to another agency.
- § 708.42— Extension of deadlines.
- § 708.43— Affirmative duty not to retaliate.