| Comment Number: | OL-10500462 |
| Received: | 2/17/2005 10:59:38 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 NSPS system will practically nullify Union representation and make employees vunable to management to unjustly cause adverse decision on his/her career. It will encourage favoritism and coercion by management without much recourse by affected employees. General position decriptions (PD) will eliminate specialties and discourage employees to excell in their choosen careers. It will make employees try to become a "jack of all trades and a master of none", if you will, thus diluting those specialty skills that require constant updating due to rapid technological advances. Condensing the PD from the present detailed ones will give the appearance that the employees is performing less work than before, therefore, he/she should be paid less. Especially those supervisors who know little or nothing about technical jobs that he has had no training or back ground. Case in point, a forklift driver who now supervises electronics technicians. Finally, the grading system will cause employees to spend more time justifying their jobs and talking a good job than doing it. It will cause some employees who would not choose to be" yes, men" and "boot lickers" for lack of a better phase.