Comment Number: 05-02582-EREG-173-d7391-c32274
Received: 3/10/2005 8:00:00 AM
Subject: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment
Title: National Security Personnel System
CFR Citation: 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901
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Comments:

Under the GS and FWS, employee pay was clear. It was funded by Congress and could not be taken away. However, under NSPS this certainly will be taken away. Under the new pay system, the amount of a worker's salary and pay will depend on the judgement of their supervisor who in our case is military and they really don't care about their civilian work force. There is no guarantee that even the best workers will receive a pay raise. It is also removing the team work force and making everyone work on their own empires. There will be no continuity since everyone will be keeping to themselves. As for deployment of a civilian, the system in place now is your position is coded for mobility and you are hired on the basis you want to deploy and are physically fit to deploy. This is why we have a volunteer force instead of draft in the armed forces. To ensure only the trained and qualified are sent.
NSPS will weaken unions and the rights gained through union contracts, such as flex days, advance notice of work schedules and overtime rotations. Under NSPS managers can schedule employees to work without sufficient advance notice of schedule changes. This will make it extremely difficult for working parents to care for their children and family. Over all this regulation needs alot of work and condsideration for the individuals being effected by it. The individuals making the decisions are not in the military base setting work force.
It will also allow the retired military make themselves more jobs than the system does now. Personnel make themselves a civilian job before they retire and gives no one else a chance. They are pre-chosen.