| Comment Number: | OL-10508464 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 8:51:30 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:
The Department of Defense knows that most employees are not versed in labor law. As such, the language they use in this broad enabling regulation will not be fully understood by the affected parties. The same can be said for the 'focus group' meetings with employees who are not in the labor relations business. Throughout this document, the Department of Defense is being elusive and not totally honest. Several Unions offered to hold public debate/discussions with Department of Defense personnel and that offer was never acknowledged. The DoD will not discuss this matter publicly because they know it will never be able to stand up in the light of day. It was created behind closed doors by Department of Defense personnel who signed non-disclosure agreements and did not allow employee representatives to be a part of the process. The Department of Defense even refused a congressional inquiry during the development period of the NSPS proposed regulation! This propsal is unacceptable, and should be trashed.