| Comment Number: | EM-023113 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 3:09:12 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 15, 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 feel this will impede teamwork. This new system is set up to pit employee against employee. Employees would try to be better by making the other look bad. Performance appraisals will be dependent on how well the supervisor likes you not necessarily on your performance. For as long as I've worked for the government I've known there have been unfair ratings and this doesn't allow for recourse. To base your performance on one persons opinion is not fair. Pay pools sounds like a losing system. How can this method be fair if you performed as good as someone else from a larger pool you still would get paid less. The Union should have a right to bargain for and represent the rights of the employees. If I did not agree to deploy when I accepted the job it should not be forced. I did not sign up to fight in the army. That's the soldiers job and my job is to support him. In reviewing the whole system it is unfair and takes away the rights as a civil servant employee. How can such a large group of employees be left unprotected and unrepresented? Sincerely,