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DHS Personnel Regulations
Updated Oct. 2, 2009 |
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NTEU’s Legislative Effort Pushes DHS to Drop Personnel
Regulations
NTEU-won legislative language is directly responsible for action by the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to rescind its much-maligned effort
to impose regressive personnel rules on all department employees.
“Starting with NTEU’s aggressive efforts in Congress and in
the courts and concluding with securing a funding prohibition in the continuing
resolution for fiscal year 2009, NTEU has been leading the way in the fight
against this regressive system, which actually would have harmed the nation’s
security,” said NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley.
She made her comments in the wake of a DHS memorandum to the unions representing
its employees that it rescinded, effective with yesterday’s start
of fiscal 2009, application of its new personnel regulations to all employees.
In recent years, NTEU also has been highly successful in winning legislative
approval to reduce substantially the funding for implementation of the DHS
personnel regulations.
President Kelley has testified before the House and Senate numerous times
in opposition to the system, pointing out the flaws in DHS’s proposal
and underscoring for lawmakers the negative impact the department’s
efforts were having on the morale of the frontline employees charged with
securing our country. More
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