| Comment Number: | OL-10508143 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 6:47:54 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:
I guess if I did not already take my work seriously as a federal employee, I would take the time to peruse these voluminous regulations thoroughly and comment appropriately. I don't have that time, and that works to the advantaqe of those who wish to deny me and other Federal employees the traditional protections we have enjoyed up to now. I will say that it is clear that policy makers want to do with us as they wish, and want us (the employees) to have as little recourse as possible. These new regulations are heavily derived from DHS regulations. Recent House of Representatives testimony by Neil A.G. McPhie, MSPB chairman, on the DHS regs states that: ...under the new rules, MSPB must sustain penalties imposed by DHS unless it “is so disproportionate to the basis for the action as to be wholly without justification.” Currently, the MSPB standard is that punishments have to fall “within the range of reasonableness.” ...Further, under the DHS regulations, if mitigation is found proper, the “maximum justifiable penalty” rather than the “maximum reasonable penalty” must be imposed.“The implication of this is that DHS will have to meet a much lower threshold to sustain a penalty,”.... I signed on as an electricl engineer on the Corps of Engineers Hydropower facilities. I have no intention of being regarded as a pawn that can be deployed all over the global chessboard at the pleasure of policy makers. I resent this attempt to intimidate employees with heavy handed policies that are intended to instill fear for ones job. Cloaking this attempt in the flag adds no legitimacy to it, and is an insult to the flag.