The Civilian Personnel Advisory Center (CPAC)-NAF at Fort Drum provides comprehensive human resources services resulting in a civilian workforce that successfully supports our nation’s defense.
Divisions and Services:
Staffing
There is one staffing team composed of a supervisor, one HR specialist, and two HR assistants who advise management on recruiting for vacant positions. Recruitment consists of classification of position descriptions, announcing vacancies on USA Jobs, rating resumes and referring highly qualified candidates to management. Once management has made a valid selection the CPAC team makes tentative job offers, initiates pre-employment requirements, makes firm / final job offers, and sets entry on duty dates. The staffing team also advises management on strategic recruitment to include non-competitive hiring authorities, position management and other facets of recruitment.
Labor Relations/Management-Employee Relations
The L/MER specialist advises management on bargaining unit obligations. There are five local bargaining units (unions) at Fort Drum representing white collar, blue collar, firefighters and Non-Appropriated Fund employees.
They are as follows:
Association of Federal Government Employees (AFGE) Local 400 – General Schedule employees
National Association of Government Employees (NAGE) Local R2-61 – Federal Wage Service (FWS) employees
International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Local F-105 – Firefighters
NAGE R2-63 – Medical Activity FWS employees
NAGE Non-Appropriated Fund Local R2-61 – Non-Appropriated Fund (NAF) employees
The L/MER specialist also advises management on leave administration, conduct issues and performance management.
The L/MER specialist processes Voluntary Leave Transfer Program (VLTP) – leave donation program and other emergency leave donation programs.
Worker’s Compensation
The workman’s compensation specialist (WCS) is available to answer questions on processing on-the-job injury claims. Employees and supervisors are responsible for initiating the claim in the Contract Claims system at the website link. The WCS can be reached at (315) 772-5819.
Benefits
Benefits are handled at the NAF HR Office. These benefits include health insurance, life insurance, retirement, 401K, flexible spending accounts and/or unemployment compensation claims. The benefits specialist can be reached at (315) 772-5819.
Source: CPAC-NAF Website
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