| Comment Number: | OL-10501775 |
| Received: | 2/28/2005 4:37:10 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:
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. So why even go to the trouble of doing it? The agency would always win and the federal employee would get screwed a second time for one offense. 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. This system has so much power that misuse and corruption will be the norm. It sets management and workers relationships back 70 years. I think that was Rumsfeld’s idea in the first place.