| Comment Number: | OL-10500791 |
| Received: | 2/22/2005 7:30:12 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:
The Case for Action, pg 7552: “NSPS is essential…to create an environment in which the total force, uniformed personnel and civilians, thinks and operates as one cohesive unit.” Concerns - We are not one cohesive unit. We are separate entities/employees who are paid differently, retire differently, work different hours, and certainly receive different financial compensations. As a civil service employee, I do not receive a tax-free Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH), my medical is not paid for me, I do not work for 20 yrs. retire and receive 50% of base pay starting next month for the rest of my life! It only makes sense that I wouldn’t think and operate as they would! How is the military pay system much different than the GS system? Under their system, a major (O-4) over 12, makes less than a major over 14 or 16 (yrs), irrespective of his performance or contributions. Theirs is a system of tenure and seniority! Is their BAH predicated upon any performance standard? Or do they all get it across the board? How about their annual raises…based on performance/contributions or across the board? Why is the Pentagon pushing a system onto the civilian workforce that they themselves do not have? Is the current GS pay system any more outdated than the military pay system since theirs isn’t pay for performance?