| Comment Number: | OL-10500449 |
| Received: | 2/17/2005 10:09:26 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:
First of all THANKS for all the hard work!!!! Great product! However, (you knew it was coming) Page 7555, Guiding Principles. The overall assumption that supervisors treat employees with dignity and fairness is simply wrong. Supervisors are NOT, as a whole, fair. Favoritism and I-don't-like-the-way-you-look is alive and well. And now, NSPS is giving supervisors even more power!!! Power over salaries, firing, hiring, grievances and RIFs. Please, No! The incorrect assumption that the Guiding Principles makes is that supervisors can be trained to be good people. Please! Supervisors are human. They like some things, and dislike other things. They like some types of people and dislike other types of people - for what ever reason, and it has nothing to do with their training. (And it has nothing to do with official discrimination). NSPS works if supervisors are fair. Guarantee us that NSPS can train them to be fair, and you get my vote. Otherwise, please go back to the drawing board and get supervisor's power scaled back.