Sec. 10. Amendment to title 3 of the United States Code

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Section 411 of title 3, United States Code, is amended— by redesignating subsections

(c)through

(f)as subsections

(d)through (g), respectively; and by inserting after subsection

(b)the following: Subject to section 12 of the Fair Employment Protection Act of 2014 , an employing office shall be liable for the acts of any individual whose harassment of a covered employee has created or continued a hostile work environment or a retaliatory hostile work environment constituting discrimination under this section if, at the time of the harassment— such individual was authorized by the employing office— to undertake or recommend tangible employment actions affecting the covered employee; or to direct the covered employee’s daily work activities; or the negligence of the employing office led to the creation or continuation of that hostile work environment or retaliatory hostile work environment. ; and in subsection (f), as redesignated by paragraph (2), by striking “subsections

(a)through (c)” and inserting “subsections

(a)through (d)”.