| Comment Number: | OL-10500586 |
| Received: | 2/18/2005 9:32:39 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:
I think the changes to the RIF rules and discipline are unfair and will destroy moral. No one will have faith in the senior leadership to do the right thing. In the case of a reduction in force, a one-year employee with an “outstanding” rating would be retained over a 20-year employee with an “excellent” rating. When disciplinary actions are appealed to either the Merit Systems Protection Board or an arbitrator, neither would be able to substitute a lesser penalty unless the penalty was “wholly unjustifiable” – a standard some consider impossible to overcome. I also object to the system’s inclusion of mandatory removal offenses, which require termination of the alleged offender’s employment for the most serious offenses.