| Comment Number: | OL-10500501 |
| Received: | 2/17/2005 1:26:36 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 problem, as I see it, isn’t with the current Civilian Personnel Policy. The biggest and most obvious problem is lack of senior LEADERSHIP at the DOD level. The current system is adequate to manage DOD civilian personnel. It’s the present leadership that is inadequate to manage any system, new or old. Under the new NSPS system, terms like high performance, agile and responsive, credible and trusted and fiscally sound are used to inform the civilian employee how effective the new NSPS system will be. I’m sure that Mr. Rumsfeld’s intention is not to deceive the civilian work force. However, we have seen and witnessed the drastic cuts that Rumsfeld and Chaney implemented to the active duty forces while under their watch. Did these cuts contribute to the high performance of our active duty components, or was it a morale buster.(Substitute the words union buster for morale buster for civilian employee’s). Did we send our military to war with the best equipment that DOD money can buy. Remembering Mr. Rumsfeld’s statement …we went to war with the equipment we had at that time. Where do words like accountability, creditability and trust fit into that statement. NSPS system also uses words like openness, clarity and accountability. Based on past performance and trustworthiness by our current leadership, some translation will be required to establish the true meaning; e.g. openness-(vulnerability)-being exposed to something detrimental. Undisclosed pay for performance standards, no automatic pay raises. Clarity- (Vague/Obscure)-not really understood, being misinformed, hidden meaning, getting something other than what was expected or promised. Reassignments to any location. Civilian employee will become “deployable assets.” No review of adverse actions. Accountability- well if we had accountability in the first place, we wouldn’t need the new NSPS system. If the current leadership were held accountable and responsible for their actions, they would understand the need to negotiate for change with unions rather than force policy down our throat. This arrogant posture by our senior management illustrates the overall contempt for the laws that have been fought for to protect our rights as employees. In my opinion, it would be more expedient, cost effective and fiscally sound to utilize the current policy. The real issue is LEADERSHIP NOT POLICY.