agencymeans— The President shall report any designation to the Committees on the Armed Services of the Congress.
employeemeans an individual in the competitive service who is not serving a probationary or trial period under an initial appointment or who has completed 1 year of current continuous employment in the same or similar positions under other than a temporary appointment limited to 1 year or less;
furloughmeans the placing of an employee in a temporary status without duties and pay because of lack of work or funds or other nondisciplinary reasons.
grademeans a level of classification under a position classification system;
paymeans the rate of basic pay fixed by law or administrative action for the position held by an employee;
prohibited personnel actionmeans taking or failing to take an action in violation of paragraph (8), (9), or (14) of section 2302(b) against an employee of an agency;
supervisormeans an employee who would be a supervisor, as defined in section 7103(a), if the entity employing the employee was an agency.
suspensionhas the same meaning as set forth in section 7501(2) of this title;