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System name:

Employee Relations Records. (42 FR 47377).

Security classification:

Confidential.

System location:

a. For active records: Employee Relations Branch, Office of Personnel and Manpower, 'Agency for International Development, 515 22nd Street N. W., Washington, D.c. 20523.

b. For retired records: Washington National Records Center, 4205 Suitland Road, Suitland, Maryland.

Categories of Individuals covered by the system:

Any A.I.D. employee or employee of another Federal Agency assigned to A.I.D. under a Participating Agency Service Agreement who has filed a complaint, grievance or appeal; has been the subject of an alimony or child support claim; has been listed as a prisoner of war or missing in action (POWIMIA); or has a medical problem affecting his employment.

Categories of records In the system:

Correspondence and indexes covering complaints, grievances, appeals, life insurance, health insurance, occupational health, workers' compensation, but not including those records belonging to the Department of Labor;, alimony and child support, employee medical problems (but not including medical records maintained by the Office of the Medical Director, Department of State) and material relating to POVIMIA's.

Authority for maintenance of the system:

Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, especially Secs. 621 and 625; Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended; Executive Order 10450 as amended August 5, 1954; 5 U.S.C. 301, 7301, 7531, 7532, 7533; Sec. 914 of P.L. 92-255; and Sec. 201 of P.L 91-616.

Routine uses of records maintained in the system, Including categories of users and the purposes of such uses:

To a duly appointed Hearing Examiner or Arbitrator for the purpose of conducting a hearing in connection with an employee's appeal involving a grievance.

To a union representative for the purpose of representing an employee in order to protect the employee righzts negotiated under the union agreement.

To the Civil Service Commission for the purpose of determining if the Agency's course of action is correct.

To a health or life insurance carrier for the purpose of determining the status of benefits paid or owed by or to an employee pursuant to a health or life insurance compensation agreement.

To hospitals, clinics, and other medical treatment facilities upon their request in order to provide information about health insurance under the Federal Employees Group Health Insurance Program.

To law enforcement agencies, U.S. Government agencies, courts, the Department of State, foreign governments and international agencies, and Members of Congress, for the purposes set forth in the Statement of General Routine Uses immediately preceding these specific notices of systems of records.

Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, rccessing, retaining, and disposing of records in the system:

Storage: Paper records in file folders.

Retrievability: By employee name.

Safeguards:

Located in metal file cabinets with three-way combination lock in secured premises with access limited to those whose official duties require access.

Retention and disposal:

Workers' compensation files are retired to Federal Records Center, St. Louis, Missouri, for permanent retention after resolution of case. Alcohol and drug abuse files are destroyed by burning one to three years after separation of employee. POW/MIA files are retained indefinitely

All other records are destroyed by burning one to two years after resolution of a problem or final decision on a pending matter.

System manager(s) 'and address:

Chief, Employee Relations Branch, at the location shown in the Systems Location Section above.

Systems exempted from certain provisions of the act:

Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a (k)(5), all investigatory material in the record which meets the criteria of these subsections is exempted forom the notice, access and contest requirements of Sections (c)(3), (d) (e)(l), (e)(4)(G), (H) and (I) and (f) 5 U.S.C. 552a in order to fulfill com-- mitments made to protect the confidentiality of sources, and to maintain access to sources of information which are necessary to determine suitability for employment. See Agency Regulations published in this issue of the Federal Register.