| Comment Number: | OL-10500906 |
| Received: | 2/22/2005 2:21:38 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:
Section on movement through pay bands: I asked a person who has been under this demonstration system, with the Navy, if it was fair. The following is his reply: "It works good if you keep your boss happy. There are no step increases, all your pay increases depend on your bosses evaluation. There are continuing points (up to 4) and bonus points (up to 4). You can get 4 points total, any mixture of continuing and bonus points, or no points. They don't have to give you anything. Continuing points mean your pay is increased forever based on the number of points you get. Bonus points are one time bonus which the IRS takes a good cut. They do not increase your pay. The points are a percentage of your pay and I'm not sure what that percentage is, not much though. The way our command works is that our higher headquarters gives our bosses so much money and they have to award points within that pot of money. People that are very good at ass kissing make out really well. Those who speak up tend to do poorly. Minorities and women (people who can cause the boss the most trouble)tend to do better than white males. You can contest your points awarded but it is like everything else. It only goes to your bosses boss and they usually back up your boss. Then your boss gets the next year to work on paying you back for causing them the trouble. If your boss doesn't like you you could go years with the only pay increase being the annual cost of living raise". My comment is that this system will do nothing to treat people fairly based on job performance and training will not change that.