| Comment Number: | OL-10500635 |
| Received: | 2/18/2005 11:12:17 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:
As a DOD employee, I am very concerned about the proposed NSPS personnel system. Being mid-career, I don't have the luxury of retiring before the system takes effect. Although I work to the best of my ability to support our U.S. Armed Forces, I feel that the rights and protections that were provided to me at the time I signed on as an employee, and were instrumental in my decision to join the federal workforce, are being eroded out from under me. This is unfair to me and to all of the employees who signed on under the current Civil Service system. A much fairer method of implementation would be to make the NSPS system become applicable only to NEW employees when they are hired. The job applicant could read about the personnel system he would be working under, and make his decision about whether to accept employment at that time. The new job applicant could have a choice about his future, rather than having a whole new set of rules forced on him against his will, as is happening to myself and the current workforce. As an example, the new FERS retirement system for civil servants was implemented in this manner in the 1980's. Nobody was forced to change into a system that was different from the one they were hired under. At the time, the current employees had a choice whether or not to accept the new retirement system. Job applicants seeking employment after the implementation of FERS were able to make their own decision as to whether to accept federal employment with FERS as a component. Thank you for your interest.