| Comment Number: | EM-017595 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 5:00:39 PM |
| 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:
March 14, 2005 DoD NSPS Comments , DoD NSPS Comments: I have worked for the Air Force now for 37 years, and am still one of the top producers and very good at what I do. However, since I won't allow someone else to overstep their authority, I am one that the NSPS will hurt. If the NSPS goes through as written, it will not only take away my rights as a US citizen, but will also ear mark me for removal due to my years of service and the retirement system I am enrolled in. Not only that, but since I am not a politician it's possible that my pay could go down every year because the rating official that I work for has a problem with my personality- I tell him when he's wrong. But then I've been doing my job for the last 16 years and he only has 14 years in the service. Most of his time is in a different field than he is now supervising. In plain words, he doesn't know what he's doing. By not allowing employees to question or grieve their classification will make a big difference for DoD. Supervisors can just keep adding the jobs that their friends don't want to do to the others in the group. This way you can have a person doing a job that would be rated under this system as a GS-11, but only paying him/her for a GS-9. How long do you think people will stay. Also, being a veteran of the Viet Nahm Era, Why should a person who has never given at least 4 years of his life at below minimum wage have the same rights as those of us who did? How have they earned it? By going to work for a relative that is determined to take care of them? Nepotism? In government service? Couldn't happen, my foot. It's alive and well now, you are just making it legal. There is so much in the NSPS that is left hanging, such as proceedures for employees to challange their performance ratings-where are these proceedures written? They are not. They will be sometime in the future...! Or, how about mandatory removal offenses? Does the Secretary really need to decide on a case to case basis what a removal offense is? Looks like the list can change at a whim. I like the part about employee rights, but to save time in reading DoD could have just written none in that section. It would have said about the same thing. And finally, coming to labor relations, DoD has removed any semblance of checks and balances that the unions now stand for. Ah yes the unions will still be there. However, if a steward tells a manager he's wrong in any process, he can be fired for insubordination. Sounds like you really want to be on a level and fair playing field. In my 37 years of service I have gone anywhere I have been asked to go, and done any job that was required of me to the best of my abilities. Looks like you will get your wish to have all of government contracted out. When will you contract your jobs? Sincerely,