DoDI 1020.04, June 30, 2020
| Term | Definition | |
| manager | A Service member or a DoD civilian employee who falls within the chain of command directly between any supervisor and the agency head. | |
| offender | An individual who engages in harassment prohibited by this issuance. The individual may be a Service member or DoD civilian employee, other federal employee, a contractor, or a vendor who does business with the DoD. | |
| pending report of harassment | A harassment report that has not been resolved by the DoD Component’s process to respond to allegations of harassment by the close of the fiscal year of the data reporting period. | |
| reprisal | A form of retaliation that involves taking, threatening, or recommending taking an unfavorable personnel action (demote, separate, treat unfairly, etc.); or withholding, threatening, or recommending withholding a favorable personnel action, for making, preparing to make, or being perceived as engaged in the antiharassment process. | |
| referred report of harassment | A harassment report that was received via one response process but was referred to another response process (e.g., EEO, Military Criminal Investigative Organization) during the data reporting period. | |
| retaliation | Conduct that punishes a DoD civilian employee for asserting the right to be free from harassment in the workplace. Retaliatory behaviors include, but are not limited to, reprisal, ostracism, maltreatment, and criminal acts for a retaliatory purpose. Retaliation includes illegal, impermissible, or hostile actions taken with the knowledge of management against DoD civilian employees for:
Filing or being a witness in a charge, report, inquiry, or lawsuit; Communicating with a supervisor or manager about discrimination, including harassment; Answering questions during a DoD Component inquiry of alleged harassment; Refusing to follow orders that would result in harassment; or Resisting sexual advances or intervening to protect others. | |
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