GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE RIGHTS ACT OF 1991.

SEC. 301. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE RIGHTS ACT OF 1991. (a) Short Title.— This title may be cited as the “Government Employee Rights Act of 1991”. (b) Purpose.— The purpose of this title is to provide procedures to protect the right of Senate and other government employees, with respect to their public employment, to be free of discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability— (c) Definitions.— For purposes of this title: (1) Senate employee.— The term “Senate employee” or “employee” means— (A) any employee whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate; (B) any employee of the Architect of the Capitol who is assigned to the Senate Restaurants or to the Superintendent of the Senate Office Buildings; (C) any applicant for a position that will last 90 days or more and that is to be occupied by an individual described in subparagraph (A) or (B); or (D) any individual who was formerly an employee described in subparagraph (A) or (B) and whose claim of a violation arises out of the individual’s Senate employment. (2) Head of employing office.— The term “head of employing office” means the individual who has final authority to appoint, hire, discharge, and set the terms, conditions or privileges of the Senate employment of an employee. (3) Violation.— The term “violation” means a practice that violates section 302 of this title.