| Comment Number: | OL-10500915 |
| Received: | 2/22/2005 3:00:44 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:
NSPS is not a system but a general idea. Until all the specifics are thought out and a plan for training the managers on how to use their new authority fairly, the system should NOT BE INTRODUCED. It is unfair to turn the civil service employees, who serve their country faithfully and work for the public’s best interests, into cut throat competitors who in battling each other for a raise will not be putting the well being of the public first. NSPS will invite cronyism, discrimination, and not provide adequate protection for employees from managers with delusions of Godhood. If the system was fair all the rules and regulations would be out in the open. If it were fair political appointees would have the same regulations as civil servants. NSPS is not a panacea but a Pandora’s box of litigation and lost productivity. Civil Servants have been asked to do more with less and giving them even less is not the answer. There are already enough rules to run the DOD efficiently. All it takes is a trained manager to enforce them. Creating a new system is not a substitute for leadership failures. Train the managers and place them on NSPS as a trial and let those of us in the trenches get back to serving the public.