Competitive schemes - "Employee of the Month" awards - punish employees who lost.

Hillel was accused of punishing employees who joined Breira.

Though a good mystery shopper pays attention to every detail, a smart client will rarely use the results to punish employees, industry executives said.

During the Review, a Senior Partner takes corporeal form to punish employees who have shown unfavorable performance.

Like most drug-abuse specialists, Dr. Schottenfeld emphasized that the program should be designed to help, not punish employees with problems.

And the Finance Sector Union condemned the job cuts as a betrayal of promises not to punish employees for management's failures.

Mr. Fine called for several changes, including more stringent efforts by the agencies to keep track of weapons and to punish employees who lose weapons or laptops.

Additionally, several Agency officials resigned amidst a variety of charges, ranging from being unduly influenced by industry groups to rewarding or punishing employees based on their political beliefs.

Defining the free-speech rights of public employees, a splintered Supreme Court today placed new limits on the ability of government agencies to punish employees for what they say.

MIT's harassment code also allowed the school to punish employees or students by termination if they felt the person was guilty of not upholding the harassment code.

In a unanimous ruling, the Court overturned a Federal appeals court decision that barred Federal agencies from punishing employees for making false statements while denying an administrative charge of wrongdoing.

A Congressman who investigated an unsuccessful 1989 warning about Iraq's nuclear weapons program has accused the Energy Department of punishing employees who raised the alarm and rewarding those who disparaged it.

Former I.R.S. officials said the establishment of an outside board would create continuing pressure for the agency's leadership to rout out problems, punish employees who mistreat taxpayers and become more responsive to public concerns.

Jane D'Amico, the president of the Nassau chapter of the Civil Service Employees Union, said Mr. Turan was punishing employees for his own mismanagement and should resign.

Additionally, due to the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act, employers may not punish employees for reporting the health hazard.

Mr. Kiepper, noting that Civil Service protection makes it more difficult to punish employees below the executive level, said he would appoint an investigator to determine whether action should be taken against those five or anyone else.

While some companies offer employees the same resettlement package whether they buy or rent, others punish employees who choose to buy instead of renting by cutting their monthly housing stipend in half, Ms. Ehrlich said.

Behind closed doors it wrote a bill that would give radical new powers to the president to hire, fire and punish employees without due process and to hire people from the outside without respect to Civil Service rules.

At a hearing of the select committee today, Kay Coles James, director of the administration's Office of Personnel Management, testified that the department's new mission should produce rules that give managers more freedom to reward or punish employees.

In addition to an apology, the council demanded that the British provide compensation for the families of those killed or wounded in the raid and said that it would punish employees who had not tried to defend the station against the British, The A.P. reported.

"They felt that it was clear that the action they took against him was a reaction to his speech and that in this country, under this Constitution and in this democratic government, you cannot punish employees for making speeches that they find distasteful in any way," he said.