| Comment Number: | OL-10500994 |
| Received: | 2/23/2005 7:51:00 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:
“3. Value talent, performance, leadership and commitment to public service” How will this be accomplished if someone feels they have been wronged, but have lost the ability to use their union to help their voice be heard? “4. Ensure accountability at all levels” This comment sounds like a line from a Lean Manufacturing textbook; however Lean Manufacturing principles also refer to personal empowerment at all levels. I haven’t read anything in the NSPS regulations that calls for personal empowerment at all levels. “7. Be competitive and cost effective” How are these two phrases both possible at the same time with a change compared to current standards? To be more competitive, the government would have to increase pay to that of the private sector which would be a great overall increase in government spending…which NSPS does not allow for. To be more cost effective, the government would have to make a simpler pay system that required less oversight and overhead…which NSPS is definitely the opposite of!