OPM Data in Support of Whistleblower
17 Sep 1981
5 Oct 1981
30 Jan 1984
2 June 1989
16 Jan 1991

United States
Office of Personnel Management
Washington, D.C. 20415

9-17-81

DISABILITY RETIREMENT NOT APPROVED

Pletten, Leroy J.

# 960 - not signed

Reasonable accommdation not shown

the agency has not established the presence of a medical condition which has caused a deficiency in service

RC
[Ralph Carbone, M.D.
Medical Officer]
BRI 46-39

United States
Office of Personnel Management
Washington, D.C. 20415

10-5-81

[TO] Dept. of the Army
US Army Tank-Automotive Command
Warren, Michigan 48090

DISABILITY RETIREMENT NOT APPROVED

Pletten, Leroy J.Position Classification Specialist
US Army Tank-Automotive CommandCivilian Personnel Division
Warren, Michigan 48090

The applicant [TACOM] has not established the presence of a medical condition which has caused [Pletten] a deficiency in service.

RETIREMENT CLAIMS DIVISION

United States
Office of Personnel Management
Washington, D.C. 20415

JAN 30 1984

In reply refer toYour reference

Mr. Leroy J. Pletten
8401 18 Mile Road 29
Sterling Heights, Michigan 48078

Dear Mr. Pletten:

This is in reply to your Freedom of Information request dated December 12, 1983, and received in this office on January 23, 1984. A copy of your letter was forwarded to this office for reply to those items pertaining to qualification requirements since this office has responsibility for the development of qualifications standards.

Specifically, you requested a copy of any and all qualification requirements issued by OPM that require smoking as a condition of Federal employment. You asked that this include qualification requirements in Handbook X-118 as well as any OPM may have issued or may be using that are not a part of the X-118 system. You also requested that if there are no such requirements that we so state.

This office is not aware of any qualifications standards issued or in use by OPM that require the ability to smoke. As a consequence, we cannot fill your request for copies of such material.

    Sincerely,

    /s/Joseph W. Howe
    Joseph W. Howe
    Assistant Director
        for Standards
        Development
Ed. Note: This is one in a series of government letters upholding my view that no qualification requirements exists for smoking. This supports my position that the ouster is void under both BFOQ rules and federal jurisdiction law 5 USC § 552.

OPM 2 June 1989
United States
Office of Personnel Management
Washington, D.C. 20415

In reply refer toYour reference
 
JUN 2 1989


Mr. Leroy J. Pletten
8401 - 18 Mile Road, #29
Sterling Heights, Michigan 48078-3099

Dear Mr. Pletten:

This is in reply to your Freedom of Information request dated May 26, 1989, concerning smoking requirements in the Federal work place.

The Office of Personnel Management has no documents relating to your inquiry.
    Sincerely,

    /s/Stephen H. Perloff
    Stephen H. Perloff, Chief
    Qualification Standards Branch
    Staffing Policy and Operations
    Career Entry and Employee
        Development Group
Ed. Note: This is one in a series of government letters upholding my view that no qualification requirements exists for smoking. This supports my position that the ouster is void under both BFOQ rules and federal jurisdiction law 5 USC § 552.
For examples of my appeals to OPM, see, for example, the following dated 21 March 1983; 29 March 1983; 27 July 1983; 10 Oct 1983; 2 January 1985; and 10 May 1985.
See also rulings in my favor by MESC, EEOC, and USACARA.

OPM 16 January 1991
United States
Office of Personnel Management
Washington, D.C. 20415

JAN 16 1991
Leroy J. Pletten
8401 18 Mile Rd. Apartment 29
Sterling Heights, Ml 48313-3042

Dear Mr. Pletten:

This is in response to your letter, postmarked December 28, 1990, under the Freedom Of Information and Privacy Act. You requested a copy of any letter or correspondence sent to you by any Associate Director for Compensation or Associate Director for Retirement and Insurance, from 1980 to the present.

We have searched our records and can find no letters or other correspondence to you from the Associate Directors during the above time period or any other time period.

Sincerely,
/s/Sidney M. Conley
Sidney M. Conley,
Assistant Director
for Retirement Programs

Ed. Note: Pursuant to federal regulation 5 CFR § 831.1206, it is a "condition precedent" for an ouster that a decision by the Associate Director for Compensation be issued first! This is yet another "condition precedent" TACOM, MSPB, DOJ, and adjudicators brazenly disregarded.