| Comment Number: | OL-10507242 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 9:37:07 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:
Section 9901.912 – Determination of appropriate units for labor organization representation – The FLRA will continue to determine the appropriateness of any unit. The Authority will determine in each case whether the appropriate unit should be established on a Department, plant, installation, functional, or other basis and will determine any unit to be an appropriate unit only if the determination will ensure a clear and identifiable community of interest among the employees in the unit and will promote effective dealings with, and efficiency of the operations of the Department, consistent with the Department’s mission and organizational structure. The new rules would bar from coverage, supervisors of military members, employees engaged in all kinds of personnel work, even in a purely clerical capacity, and attorney positions. It is hard to see why DoD wants all these employees excluded from bargaining unit coverage.