| Comment Number: | OL-10509254 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 1:59:59 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 believe that whistleblowers do not always have protection! The employees due process rights are not always protected! (Page 2:Fact Sheet Proposed NSPS Regulations) I have factual first hand documentation and first hand experiences to make this statement. Of course, management should have the ability to fire nonperforming employees. However, this presumes the organization has trustworthy management. If management is not trustworthy, the possibility exits that quality employees could be unfairly reprimanded and/or dismissed without due process rights. Taking more control from the unions will just cause employees to fight a management system that will protect its illegal actions while destroying the good name of employees with years of quality ratings. I currently belong to a unit at Ft. Monmouth that did not desire a union. Because of the last year-and-a-half of a very threatening management style, our unit is desperately in the process of joining a union. My lawyer and I have the documented facts and signed paperwork to prove that CPO and the management twisted facts to protect management. I invite any unbiased personnel to read my documentation and my lawyer’s letters which prove that I was threatened (twice) and forced to go against regulations. Management and CPO did not follow correct regulations before the investigation or during the investigation, the grievance process, and the appeal process. Regulations are still not being followed. After 9 years of quality ratings and character references, I was threatened to follow the chain of command, yet new, young employees (hired by new management) had an open door to the management. Management never counseled me. To this day, I have not talked with an unbiased authority. The proposed new system would continue to allow poor management to cover-up its mistakes by forcing the employees who know the truth to be quiet or leave. My situation demonstrates that whistleblowers are not protected under the current system which means they certainly will not be protected or have due process under the proposed system.