| Comment Number: | OL-10501375 |
| Received: | 2/24/2005 7:12:22 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:
Adverse action protections have been eviscerated under the guise of national security. I believe that this will have the unintended side effect of increasing discrimination complaints, as that will be the only system left which offers an employee a chance at prevailing. The adverse action procedures as proposed will become like the current grievance system - a management system by management and for management, where the employee will fact near insurmountable odds based upon a preponderance of proof and limited MSPB review. What of the Office of Special Counsel? - will they still address prohibited personnel practices, or will those prohibited practices also disappear in the interest of national security??