| Comment Number: | OL-10509794 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 6:19:37 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:
Fifty pages of general rules for a new personnel sytem to take the place of a very clearly defined existing system that has gotten the contry's security to this point--while maintaining a reasonable balance between management authority and employee rights--is a lot to comment on. My comments, like the rules themselves, are general. I am not a union member, but it is clear that the union was not represented in the drafting of these rules. It is likewise clear that they will have no meaningful place in the system. Recommend that DoD rewrite the rules while including consideration of the employees the system is for. Improvement to the current system is a noble objective. Overturning it and the elements of due process, fairness, and other rights that Americans expect as elements of our Govenment is not so noble. Recommend that DoD make revisions to the current system. The printed disucssions around the rules are decidedly lacking in candor. It is truly a lopsided document--and system. Lopsisded documents suggest that the writers had discussion worth hiiding. Recommend that DoD rewrite the document so that it gives a balanced hearing on each rule it proposes. Recommend that DoD rewrite the rules keeping in mind that career civil service empoyees are not in the military, they are not political apointees, and they do not work for private industry.