| Comment Number: | OL-10507163 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 9:11:58 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:
9901.512 – Probationary periods – The Secretary may establish probationary periods 'as deemed appropriate' for employees in the competitive and excepted service covered by NSPS. No outside limits are set in the proposed regulations. Could probationary periods be set for 3 years? 5 years? 10 years? No criteria are included for determining the appropriate length of probationary periods. Since probationary periods will be set for employees and not jobs, persons appointed to the same position could serve different probationary periods. An employee appointed to a given position in one part of the country could serve a different probationary period from someone appointed somewhere else. A preference eligible, who has completed 1 year of a probationary period, would have adverse action and appeals rights.