| Comment Number: | OL-10500103 |
| Received: | 2/15/2005 9:36:24 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:
The proposed DoD ability to transfer, assign and force people to go to places they do not want to go to, is coercion and does not respect the rights of individuals. DoD civilians are not military and should not be treated like military. DoD civilians joined the civilian workforce, full knowing they would not be treated like military and DoD knows this and agreed to it. The new regulations should only apply to those hired after the implementation of the new system. When many of the current workforce was hired, they were not told nor did thay agree to be transfered to any place at the arbitrary choice of DoD. There exists a contract between these people and DoD at time of hiring. This Contract is now being violated by DoD and is in breach. Putting so much power in the hands of Managers, will create corruption, favoritism, and destroy morale, leading to law suits, low productivity and an environment that is non conducive to the comradery, required to deal with the stresses inherent in DoD's current world and work situation. Many of these managers got their positions largely by kissing up, favoritism and manipulating the system. Yet these very people are now supposed to have the integrity, morality and ethics to judge their employees in terms of who gets raises. It won't work. A great portion of the so called "pay for performance" raises will be in terms of one shot bonuses and will not apply to the retirement of the employee's. This is another scheme to lessen the retirement amounts employee's will get at retirement and the salaries they get. All pay raises should be creditable to the retirement and permanent to an employee's salary. Limiting union participation puts too much power in managements hands. Power corrupts. The checks and balances required for an equitable and ethical resolution to problems, will be non existent in the new system. At the core for the reasons given for the new system is the mantra, "the war on terrorism". This so called concept of war, was created by the current administration, as a catch all excuse to take the rights away from individuals, create wars based on false pretenses and lessen our constitutional protections. Also, the feeble excuse that DoD needs a faster hiring system is falacious. DoD does not need to change the whole GS system to install a faster hiring system. All it had to do was initiate a new hiring process, by directive.