Comment Number: OL-10500499
Received: 2/17/2005 1:10:23 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:

To put it bluntly, this system stinks. There is no way that you will be able to keep Federal workers and not lose them in DROVES! Regarding the pay, you can have a top performer at the top of the pay band. However, because they are at the top of the payband, they won't get much of a pay increase or bonus. What is the incentive to be an outstanding performer? Why would anyone in their right mind want to work for the Government? A person would be better off joining the military than they would to work as a Government employee. Does the Secretary of Defense honestly think that the pay and bonuses would be properly funded and would be distributed equally? The answer is no. The pay comparability act still hasn't been funded and it has been around for quite a long time. Bonuses now are not given out equally. I know of a situation where an office had 6 employees and 1 supervisor. The supervisor got a $4000.00 bonus. The top employee in the office who got an outstanding rating (rating of 1, the highest that could be given) got a mere $750.00. 3 other people got a 2, which was good. They got $500 each. Whippeee! After taxes, the $750.00 became around $400. The $500, after taxes was $250. Yet, supervisors get thousands. This system is going to break on the backs of the average federal employee. The only incentive is for the Secretary of Defense. As far as deploying employees. If federal employees wanted to be deployed at will and on the whim of the Secretary of Defense, they would have joined the military. I just can not believe what is being pulled in this system as a guise for making it better. This system will make our country defenseless. Right now, federal employees are proud and they work hard and they try and do a good job. This system is demoralizing, it induces favortism, it goes back decades in civil reform, it puts civilian lives in danger without the benefits that the military has, and it is plain wrong. This is not a system that benefits the United States.