Comment Number: OL-10502653
Received: 3/2/2005 2:54:40 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:

This comment is in regards to Regulatory Instruction Number 3206-AK76\0790-AH82. As a Citizen Soldier, Desert Storm Veteran, and Civil Service Worker I believe the proposed NSPS will undermine the Civil Service and hurt the mission of the DoD employees thus having a negative impact on Homeland Security. My family and I have made valuable sacrifices to protect and defend our beloved Homeland, The U.S.A. I am not alone, there are hundreds of thousands of Civil Service Workers that do it every day across this great Homeland. Based on these experiences I believe in the following: 1. The employee's in DoD should continue to receive the same annual pay across-the-board adjustment that other GS/FWS workers receive. The individual pay increases for performance should include guaranteed percentages in the regulations so that employee's will understand the pay system and what their pay increase will be depending on their performance. 2. In order to insure fairness and accuracy, DoD employees should be able to appeal any performance rating to an independent grievance and arbitration process like they can do now. 3. DoD should not change the current layoff/RIF rules which give balanced credit to performance and the employees valuable years of committed service to DoD. 4. 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. 5. The labor management law that has governed the employees’ right to organize and engage in collective bargaining has worked well since I have had the honor of serving this great Country, State, and community. There is no compelling reason to take away most of the collective bargaining rights or grievance rights. DoD should not create a “company dominated dispute board.” Any dispute board must be “jointly selected” by management and the Union. I respectively urge you to support us in our defense of our homeland and of those who prosper in Her boarders.