| Comment Number: | OL-10500731 |
| Received: | 2/19/2005 2:00:30 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:
"Pay Bands" - I do not like/agree with the new proposed pay system as I know this will be very political and some of us, "the employees", will suffer for it. This opens the doors to personnel receiving more pay based on one person's opinion, i.e. the supervisor, the commander, or group CC which may be making pay decisions based on personality related reasons and/or prejudices held by that person, i.e. race, religion, sexual orientation, etc, or the person may make the decision based on one's job meaning that he/she may give a person better pay because he/she thinks the "job" that person holds is more important than the one someone else is doing even if both of these individuals are performing in an outstanding manner in jobs that may be similar or just as important to the mission. I have worked for the U.S. Air Force both in active duty and in civil service for over 30 years and I can assure you this will happen as I have seen it happen on many ocassions. Please reconsider this pay band system. I do not think this will better our current system. It will only hurt it and may cause many good employees to seek jobs outside the federal government.