| Comment Number: | OL-10500855 |
| Received: | 2/22/2005 11:50:37 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 nuclear engineer with the gov't for 17 years now at NNSY, I find it very upsetting that this type of whole sale make-over is being allowed to happen. This new system does NOT make me feel better or cause me to worry less about my pay or how it is handled. Contrary, it makes me worry more. It goes back to the good ole boy system. Who watches over the supervisor? So all of management will make sure they have their raises first. If i make a decision based on technical requirements being right (first and foremost in my field) and the schedule and cost goes up, my boss does not give me a raise because he got chewed out for not meeting the schedule or cost when its his job as a manager to manage it all ! And my cost of living increases are not automatic either now? Its up to my supervisor to give me that also? That is not fair. I feel this new system is a just a smoke and mirror tactic to drain money from the federal workers pot to pay for increase defense spending for our war efforts and to treat the federal workers as military personnel. Telling me where to go and what to do and what I'll get paid to do it whenever they feel like it. Well I'm not in the military. I want to serve my country by fixing its war ships like my dad did for 52 years here. I have read all the news brief leading up to this NSPS and all along the way its seem that Mr. Rumsfield and company have deliberately failed to meet all the requirements of implimenting this system and the biggest one being that unions were left out of the planning phase of this and continue to be even after practically begging to let them comment on it as congress told Rumsfield he must do. Now they are taking it to court and I hope this entire NSPS stops in it tracks until some real management, by the people and for the people in federal gov't, step up and design a plan that is FAIR to its employees and not shoved down our throats. This is not the 1930's anymore. We have rights and my right is that I was hired on a GS pay schedule which I liked and I expect to stay on it until I retire. I have giving 17 years of civil service with many Special Act and Service Awards. So I have kept my end of the agreement when hired. I expect the gov't to keep their end of the agreement. If this new NSPS was implemented when I was being hired, I would have thought very hard about working for civil service over a private sector company. I suggest you make this NSPS a payscale for new employees. Let them go to Kuwait and weld plates on vehicles since they agree to this when hired. As a shipyard, I have plenty to do here to fix our warships. Our mission statement is: "ANY SHIP, ANY TIME, ANY WHERE" and we live by it. We travel the globe to support our nuclear navy and do not need a bunch of bureucrats trying to disrupt our work force while we are trying to accomplish this. No one I know agrees with NSPS. Everything I have read from current NSPS uses seems to be negative. The over all feedback I seem to be hearing is that NSPS is poorly planned, serves another agenda and leaves federal employees with less rights then they had on the GS schedule. WHY? So the gov't can treat federal workers like the military and take its money and use it elsewhere. A change in the pay system will only hurt the capabilities of civil service workers. It may sound good on paper but not in reality its not. END