| Comment Number: | OL-10503352 |
| Received: | 3/5/2005 8:38:31 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:
DOD has completely misunderstood the type of collaboration Congress required in section 9902(f) of the law. This section of the law says that DOD will give the unions 30 days notice of the proposed system and then give the unions’ comments full and fair consideration “before deciding whether or how to proceed with the proposal.” At that point, DOD must accept such recommendations of the unions as it sees fit and notify Congress of those recommendations it has not accepted, and continue collaboration over the “proposal” as described in the law. DOD has short-circuited this entire process by issuing its proposed regulations in the Federal Register. Congress could not have made it clearer that the collaborative process with the unions must occur before, not after, DOD’s decision to propose a new personnel system.