5 CFR § 752.603 - Standard for action.

---
identifier: "/us/cfr/t5/s752.603"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "5 CFR § 752.603 - Standard for action."
title_number: 5
title_name: "Administrative Personnel"
section_number: "752.603"
section_name: "Standard for action."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS"
part_number: "752"
part_name: "ADVERSE ACTIONS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "5 U.S.C. 6329b, 7504, 7514, 7515, and 7543; 38 U.S.C. 7403. E.O. 10577, 19 FR 7521, 3 CFR, 1954-1958 Comp., p. 218."
regulatory_source: "74 FR 63532, Dec. 4, 2009, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "752"
---


# 752.603 Standard for action.

(a) An agency may take an adverse action under this subpart only for reasons of misconduct, neglect of duty, malfeasance, or failure to accept a directed reassignment or to accompany a position in a transfer of function.

(b) An agency may not take an adverse action under this subpart on the basis of any reason prohibited by 5 U.S.C. 2302.

[74 FR 63532, Dec. 4, 2009, as amended at 85 FR 65987, Oct. 16, 2020; 87 FR 67783, Nov. 10, 2022]