| Comment Number: | OL-10500096 |
| Received: | 2/15/2005 9:03:00 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:
Without targeting specific sections, I believe certain facts should be considered before changing a pay system for the sake of change. 1) There is very little waste within government offices. Jobs have been cut to the point that more often than not, one person is doing the job of two people. Government employees are dedicated and put in more than 8 hours a day. Many do not take brakes unless they are smokers. They are knowledgable and efficient workers. 2) DoD does not have enough funds now to pay their employees overtime unless they are in critical positions such as finance. The Marine Corps has less than the rest of DoD. In the Marine Corps, there have not been enough funds in the last three years to give out monitary awards. How are they going to be able to pay anyone a higher salery? 3) Working for the Department of Interior, I did not find this problem, but within DoD I have experienced supervisors who minipulate and discriminate against those they do not like or who make them feel threatened. An employee who finds himself under such a supervisor, would not have sufficient recorse under the new NSPS. These supervisors will set you up to fail and think nothing of ruining your career. Note, I see this and I am white, female, and an experienced worker. The discrimination is coming mainly from female supervisors, both black and white and many of which are my peers. 4) As I understand this system, civilian workers can be moved overseas if the need arrises. I have not volunteered to serve overseas and do not think it would be fair for the government to demand I move or serve for a war purpose unless I volunteer for it. We do not have a draft, but yet I could be drafted as such? 5) Government jobs have always been a secure with friendly work environments as a whole. With private industry so fickle, it was the place to be. If you apply for a position, you know if it is a move upward and with career status, you have a secure, solid job. Your position was rarely moved to a new location and if the job was disbanded, everything was done to insure you had a position with equal or more pay (within your home area if you wished). The new system would make a move very risky and keeping a steady salary very shakey. I believe this new system would encourage good workers to find higher saleries outside government where they can be paid over time and will get all the benefits that government cannot provide. Finally, gradual change is much safer and wiser than a fast and drastic change. If this goes into effect, there will be a lot of abuse and we are not prepared to handle such a large volume of unhappy employees. Good workers can be eliminated unfairly and lost in the system. Granted, there are some who should be eliminated but they can be under the old system. Our only problem is lazy or hesitant supervisors. A new system will not change that.