| Comment Number: | OL-10511487 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 3:45:25 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:
Subject: Comments on Proposed NSPS Regulation—RIN 3206-AK76/0790-AH82 As a Federal employee of the Department of Defense, I am extremely concerned that our congress has empowered the Secretary of Defense in a manner that allows him to be a dictator under the disguise of national security. The imposition of NSPS has created a system, by which, takes the rights of employees and their unions to effectively represent labor issues. This need for flexibility has been in effect for many years without adversely impacting the Department of Defense. Unions and Federal have never impeded DOD in any efforts concerning national security. Under NSPS employees will have their constitutional right to due process eliminated. Rights to appeal all revert back to the Secretary of Defense final decision. Decisions favoring the employee will be subject to the review of the NSPS Labor Relations Board appointed b7y none other than the Secretary of Defense. It is improbable to conceive that this is a non-biased Board, again defying the rights of federal workers rights to due process. Employees have and continue to provide an exemplary work history and it must be recognized that DOD employees are the true components of DOD not just the Secretary of Defense alone. Sincerely, Kent Salvage GS-09