16:0040(10)NG - AFGE Local 32 and OPM -- 1984 FLRAdec NG

 16 FLRA No. 10
 
 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT
 EMPLOYEES, LOCAL 32
 Union
 
 and
 
 OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 Agency
 
                                            Case No. O-NG-903
 
                DECISION AND ORDER ON NEGOTIABILITY ISSUES
 
    This petition for review comes before the Authority pursuant to
 section 7105(a)(2)(E) of the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations
 Statute (the Statute) and raises questions relating to the negotiability
 of two Union proposals.  Upon careful consideration of the entire
 record, including the parties' contentions, the Authority makes the
 following determinations.
 
                             Union Proposal 1
 
    No lie detectors will be used.
 
    Union Proposal 1 is to the same effect as Union Proposal 4 found to
 be outside the duty to bargain in American Federation of Government
 Employees, AFL-CIO, Local 1858 and Department of the Army, U.S. Army
 Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, 10 FLRA 440 (1982).  In that
 decision, the Authority held that a proposal which prohibited the use of
 the polygraph violated management's right to determine its internal
 security practices under section 7106(a)(1) of the Statute.  The
 Authority determined that the proposal prevented management from
 utilizing investigative techniques which it had adopted to safeguard
 Agency personnel and property.
 
    According to the Agency's uncontested contention, Union Proposal 1,
 herein, likewise prevents management from utilizing an investigative
 technique which it has adopted to safeguard personnel and property.
 Hence, based on U.S. Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal and the
 reasons and case cited therein, Union Proposal 1 is outside the duty to
 bargain.
 
                             Union Proposal 2
 
          Entries in an individual development plan do constitute a
       commitment by the agency to promote or train.
 
    The individual development plan r