| Comment Number: | OL-10506757 |
| Received: | 3/12/2005 9:45:55 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:
Public Law 108-136 authorized the Department of Defense (DoD) to design and implement a National Security Personnel System (NSPS) with the full participation and collaboration of DoD employee representatives. Due to the fact that not a single DoD employee representative was allowed to participate in any of the Working Groups, who designed this system, as published in the Federal Register (14 Feb 2005), DoD has failed to fully comply with this authorizing legislation. It is now incumbent upon DoD to remedy this noncompliance by directly negotiating NSPS, as well as its implementing rules and regulations with the authorized representatives of its employees. That is the ONLY fair and equitable remedy for the department's total disregard for the terms and conditions of the law authorizing NSPS. As a DoD civilian employee of 23+ years, who has had the honor of deploying as a civilian to support an Army task force in Kosovo, I want my employer to comply with that law - via the only avenue curently allowed to me by DoD - the full participation of my union representatives. Why? Because Secretary Rumsfeld and his Working Groups have no monopoly on the good ideas that will make an already flexible workforce even more flexible. DoD civilian employees do the real work that supports this country's military every day - not in meetings or conferences, but out on the ranges, at the railheads, in the processing centers - you name it - we're there for those soldiers, sailors and marines. And we have some pretty good ideas on flexibility, too. We are banging on that closed door, Secretary Rumsfeld, because this is America - a nation of inclusion. Please, don't exclude your enablers from the process...