Per the latest NGL email:
Fac Reps,
Attached is the Temporary Modifications for the February 16, 2022 NCEPT Panel. Note - the ERR Submission deadline was moved to January 20, 2022
Please Disseminate the below message to your members
Brothers and Sisters,
While we adjust to the various staffing and training challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, NATCA recognizes the importance of balancing employee movement with the overall staffing health of the NAS. Our goal is to keep the NCEPT process transparent, and we have worked with the Agency to make smart decisions on moving controllers from facilities that are higher staffed to those that are lower staffed.
The FAA has continued to hire, train candidates at the schoolhouse in OKC, and place them in ATC-7 and below facilities throughout the pandemic. Most of these facilities are now at target capacity. In order to create openings for future academy graduates and NEST placements, NCEPT has agreed to dedicate Round 2 on the February 16, 2022 panel to transferring employees from the ATC-7 and below facilities into the ATC-8/9 facilities utilizing the temporary MOU modifications published for this panel.
We have also agreed to return to our usual NCEPT panel schedule (four panels a year, one each quarter) to keep the movement pipeline open. NCEPT will continue to use real-time data to guide employee movement while the Covid-19 impacts are assessed prior to each panel.
Full details and the next NCEPT Panel timelines are below. As always, you can visit
natca.org/ncept or contact NCE NCEPT *REDACTED* for the most up to date information.
February NCEPT temporary modifications
Facilities are either designated as “gaining” or “releasing” facilities for each round.
Facility Selection Cap
Selections for a single facility will not exceed the following Collaborative Resource Workgroup (CRWG) caps during this panel:
Min Max
- Building greater than 300 CRWG 1 5
- Building 200 – 299 CRWG 1 4
- Building 100 – 199 CRWG 1 3
- Building less than 100 CRWG 1 2
Round 1
- Gaining facility must be below 85% current % CPC to target and below the National projected % to target* (ref. column AA of PPT).
- The order of gaining facilities will be based on the most recent decision lens agreement, processed and posted **.
- Gaining facility Trainee to Total Controller ratio target is less than 30%.
- Releasing facility must be at or above 85% current % CPC to target and at or above 85% projected % to target.
Round 2:
- Releasing facility must be an ATC-4 through ATC-7 that is currently at or above 100% Current % CPC to Target, and their Projected % to Target is also 100% or above.
- Releases will stop once a facility’s projected staffing average drops below 100%.
- The order of gaining facilities considered will only be from the ATC-8/9 facility with the lowest projected staffing average and work up the list from there.
- Gaining facilities may be filled until selections reach a projected staffing to target of 100%.
- The gaining facility Trainee to Total Controller ratio target is less than 30%.
The panel reserves the right to address extraordinary circumstances on an as needed basis.
Releases:
All release dates will be as follows:
- Category 1 - PP13 (June 5, 2022) through PP19 (August 28, 2022)
- Category 2 – PP20 (September 11, 2022) through PP06 of 2023 (February 26, 2023)
* Projected National Average percentage will be published in the PPT on 1/26/2022
** Decision Lens is part of NCEPT data execution on 1/27/2022.
** Current National Average percentage will be published in the PPT on 1/26/2022.
NCEPT Timeline:
20 January: ERR submission deadline
21 January: Facility update to SWB
25 January: HR Staffing Workbook entries completed
26 January: Facility Priority Placement Tool
27 January: NCEPT data executed
31 January: HR resume upload begins
4 February: HR resume upload complete
7 February: Manager Ranking List published (Opened)
11 February: Manager Rankings completed (Closed)
14 February: P21 prepares data for NCEPT board
16 February: NCEPT Convenes/Adjourns
Post NCEPT Selection Meeting Timeline:
2nd Quarter (February) NCEPT Selection Dates:
- NCEPT meeting adjourns February 16th
TOL sent to employees no later than March 2, 2022 (two weeks)
- Clock starts March 6, 2022