| Comment Number: | EM-023053 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 11:22:47 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:
Listed below are SOME (not all, as there are too many to mention) of my concerns and comments on the new National Security Personnel System: Subpart E-Staffing and Employment - 9901.501 - 9901.516 I personally don't believe the proposed rules for staffing under NSPS are defined to the appropriate level. The beginning of the end exists here because the backbone of the workforce will not be protected under any provisionary lines. What are they to strive for to enable them to achieve status? Are there upper and lower limits to adhere to? What are the expectations? There is no set of rules to build upon should NSPS become a reality. Subpart - H - Appeals -9901.801 - 9901.810 The appeals process is one of the most valuable assets belonging to the DOD workforce as it is today. Tomorrow will tell a different story - NSPS! It's the ultimate license to abuse an employee by taking away any or all of his rights within the Appeals Process. If not to take it completely away but to cut! "When it's cut" ---"it's broke." This will, should a worker(s) have a problem(s), resolute him with no positive avenue of approach...thus resulting in poor employee morale, lessened productivity, low self esteem and who knows what else. Let's give the agency a new title..."MASTER!" Subpart D - Performance Management - 9901.401 - 9901.409 The NSPS latitude for Performance Ratings has thrown away the rule book pertaining to all that we (Department of the Army Civilians) hold dear when it undermines our right to process fairly within the system. WE have a great amount of pride in doing a good job and being justly appraised..."give a days work for a days pay." Again, NSPS dehumanizes the workers to the extent that could be changed into machines. If a supervisor does or does not like you, it will have a great bearing upon what your rating will be, and knowing there is little or no redress for the employee, why should he care about how the "Little Man" feels. Subpart C - Pay and Pay Administration - 9901.301 - 9901.373 The pay banding system, as I understand it, will, under NSPS become an equally debasing system. Workers work for their wages. Give them their earnings in the proper sequence and chain of expectations as the existing system mandates. There should be no guessing about wages when a worker has monetary obligations which he's/she's expected to meet. "Money isn't the most important thing in the world, but it sure makes life easier when you have it." When so many families in this country live from paycheck to paycheck, how far are they from being on the street, living in a abandoned vehicle or in a cardboard box? What does that do to the national economy? If there's no tax base, there's no taxable income to draw from, thus, how does our country continue to march without its supporting revenues? I think someone needs to take a look at the world history books and consume a few lessons. An individual who's in good favor of management may receive and added chunk of money to his/her yearly salary, while at the same time his counterpart just got jabbed out of his. As I stated earlier in this particular comment, "how far are some away from living on the streets?"