| Comment Number: | OL-10506440 |
| Received: | 3/11/2005 3:20:07 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:
Section 9901.221 Classification requirements How will the qualifications differ from what I am currently working under? I went to a training session recently and the retired FLRA attorney relayed to us a story about a case. He called it the "Plumtrician" case. The case was about an employee who worked for a federal facility and the decision was made to send a plumber to work on an electrical circuit during an emergency situation. The plumber went to try to do the work as directed, we can't ask him about what happened because he is DEAD! When people start classifying the different positions, what protections or guarantees do I have as an employee that they will have any idea about what is involved in the different classifications. Your document says that DoD can make their own determinations on classifications without using the established OPM guidelines. I am no rocket scientist, but why were those "standards" established? Did OPM have nothing better to do and just start employing people to type up a lot of words and call them "classifications". Well I don't think so. I know that a lot of very intelligent people, including my union reps sat down and discussed what were safe and reasonable requirements for classifications. Why is DoD trying to reinvent the wheel?