Comment Number: OL-10501364
Received: 2/24/2005 5:05:20 PM
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:

NSPS comments: 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 the termination of the alleged offender’s employment for most offenses.