| Comment Number: | OL-10500407 |
| Received: | 2/16/2005 6:02:35 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:
The proposed NSPS pay system includes a locality-based component of pay called a “local market supplement” in addition to an employee’s basic pay. The local market supplement will be based on market conditions related to geographical and occupational factors, and may differ from one occupation to another in a given locality area. Upward adjustments to local market supplements will not be given to unacceptable performers. If locality pay (local market supplements) is based on the cost of living of a geographical area, how can it legally be withheld or dispersed at different rates based on occupation? How does this agree with the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990 (FEPCA). In that same law, Congress gave rating-based performance awards a specific legal authority for the first time, but excluded locality pay from award calculations? This is the part that is confusing, has there been a change to FEPCA? Regards Jeff