| Comment Number: | EM-022880 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 11:25:12 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 16, 2005 DoD NSPS Comments , DoD NSPS Comments: I write to express my concerns about changes to work rules in the Department of Defense (DoD). The proposed regulations, known as the National Security Personnel System (NSPS), were printed in the Federal Register on February 14, 2005. This message will be sent to both DoD and my representatives in Congress. I have worked for DoD for years. I am upset that these proposals seem to treat the employees who help support our military soldiers so poorly. Most DoD employees work hard and are committed. I am concerned that treating civilian employees in this fashion will hurt the agency?s mission and undermine overall moral with in the workplace. I feel this NSPS system will promote a system in which federal managers are influenced by favoritism rather than serving the civil concerns of the American people. With the new patronage pay system, the amount of a worker's salary will depend almost completely on the personal judgment of his or her manager. This system will force workers to compete for pay raises, which will destroy teamwork and increase conflict among employees. Most managers I have dealt with so far have been military and have these manager positions because of their time in grade and are not properly trained for the positions they hold. Since I am a handicapped employee and have a husband who is a 100% Disabled Viet Nam Army Veteran I find the inability of managers to schedule employees to work without sufficient advance notice of schedule changes extremely poor and thoughtless. In regards to being deployed somewhere other than my home area as a civilian I find it very sad. To decide that you are basically going to blackmail civilian employees into foreign service or duties away from our homes with the threat of losing our jobs is a pure bully tactic that screams of an unfair system from the start. Sincerely,