| Comment Number: | EM-022873 |
| Received: | 3/17/2005 12:02:27 AM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
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Comments:
Due process and fairness demand that the independent body reviewing a major suspension as termination be allowed to alter the proposed penalty if they deem it to be unreasonable. The current standards approved by the courts to guide such bodies should continue to be used. As a federal employee of DoD, I am extremely concerned that our congress has empowered the Secretary of Defense in a manner, which allows him to be a dictator under the disguise of national security. The imposition of NSPS has created a system, by which, takes the rights of employees and their unions to effectively represent labor issues. this need for "flexibility" has been in effect for many years without adversely impacting the Department of Defense. The necessity to subject and interrupt the livelihood of our dedicated and most trustworthy government employees is ludicrous. We as government workers about to face one of the most disturbing change in history under the newly proposed National Security Personnel System of Defense. It does nothing more than put the "employee" at the mercy of the Secretary of Defense. It allows for little to no protection for the employee. DoD workers will be subjected to dictatorships by which. no method of due process is afforded. employees will be removed for the sole purpose of providing employment to managements' family members, friends and those who are loyalist to DoD and the Secretary of Defense, instituting and promoting once again nepotism. National security should not be used as means to punish or miss use managements authority. We need neutral third parties.