| Comment Number: | OL-10503075 |
| Received: | 3/4/2005 12:37:46 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:
WORKFORCE SHAPING SUBPART F Leave the present Reduction In Force rules alone! Many people such as myself have given our entire dedicated career service to DoD. As a prior military member, of both the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army, I bought and paid for my military service to be credited towards my DoD civil service retirement. That payment I made was done so in good faith for a retirement that has always been my goal to achieve by serving my country. I currently have over 25 years of total government service vested with about 17 more years to go before I can qualify for full retirement. The new proposed RIF rules will totally strip away the tenure that I have rightly earned for my dedication and provided service. This is wrong and totally unacceptable! Limiting RIF to areas as specific as a targeted office, branch, or even specific occupational series without it affecting others of the same 50 feet down the hall is completely wrong and disingenuous to the dedicated career civil servant. The proposed rules that allow a senior employee to be removed over an employee of the same, with as little as one year of service, just because they work in an office not affected by the RIF should be considered criminal at best. Whoever proposed such a policy should be ashamed to recommend this. It is obvious that this person or persons will never be under these policies themselves. Next point…If this type of selective RIF is permitted to take place then the DoD will have instigated a hostile workplace environment for all employees. Do you suppose that people who have given so much over their careers to only be removed from service by such discriminatory measures will react kindly? I want to make it clear that I am not making any type of threat by saying the following but only because of my concern. Don’t you suppose that if the RIF proposal is ever carried out and destroys the retirement opportunity of a person on the edge, for whatever reason it may be, that a violent situation is likely to occur at some point, sometime, somewhere? I do. And this RIF proposal, if made law, has just now put my fellow employees and myself at risk by certainly subjecting us to a new catalyst for a hostile work environment that could potentially become violent without warning. Will anyone in the workforce ever feel safe again not knowing when a postal situation could erupt? Bad, bad, bad, policy. Leave RIF rules alone. Today’s RIF rules are understandable, exact in intention when executed and how they are executed, and have been designed in the fairest possible means to all.