---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 4018"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "4018"
heading: "Employee protection"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/4018"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Education for Economic Security"
  - "Subchapter V — Asbestos School Hazard Abatement"
---

# §4018. Employee protection


No [State](/usc/20/4020.md?p=8) or [local educational agency](/usc/20/4020.md?p=4) receiving assistance under this subchapter may discharge any employee or otherwise discriminate against any employee with respect to the employee’s compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because the employee has brought to the attention of the public information concerning any [asbestos](/usc/20/4020.md?p=1) problem in the [school buildings](/usc/20/4020.md?p=6) within the jurisdiction of such agency.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–377, title V, § 509, Aug. 11, 1984, 98 Stat. 1294; Pub. L. 101–637, § 14(a)(9), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4594.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1990—Pub. L. 101–637 inserted section catchline.