| Comment Number: | OL-10500671 |
| Received: | 2/18/2005 1:24:36 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:
My comment is specifically addressing the years of service issue, or shall I say, the lack of appreciation or concern for years of service. NSPS is asking a dedicated 50 something year old employee with 20 plus years of service to support legislation that will totally disregard the fact that they have been overworked and underpaid for the past 20 years and will have nothing to fall back on once they are caught up in a RIF. It's completely ridiculous to allow performance to lead the way for monetary issues and RIFs. Performance has too much human input. You'll still have those employees that will not kiss *** receiving no awards and bad appraisals for things that are not related to their jobs. If they are not fishing, hunting and Race Car fans than they will receive RIF letters as soon as NSPS goes into effect and this command downsizes. Who will be measuring performance. The same supervisors here with numerous amounts of greivances to their credit already. My other concern is the non-negotiable portion. Why make these things non-negotiable? If you looking for a system that's fair to both the government and the employee, than leave negotiations as they are. How many situations do you enter into, knowing that they are non-negotiable and with no guarantees. NSPS written as it is now will undermind any faith I've ever had in any of these systems.