Comment Number: OL-10501054
Received: 2/23/2005 11:34:26 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:

I think this pay banding is just another way to cut the budget. It is a definite step backwards. It will encourage discrimination in the workplace. The pay band is confusing and puts too much weight on supervisors which will only take care of their friends and the rest will fall by the wayside. It will not help in recruitment because who wants to jump into a system that you may never get a pay raise. It leaves the humble at risk. It will grease the squeaky wheels and will leave the humble, less-flamboyant worker with little choice but to vacate government service and seek more rewarding work elsewhere. The government needs to improve the present system. They need to limit the number of supervisory positions ratioed to the number of actual people who work beneath them. They continue to elevate supv. positions and eliminate the people below them. Some person may only supervise one individual. Why, of course, would they want to shoot themselves in the foot? Positions at the higher level have increased contrary to the lower level. Thus, with less people who actually do work, it makes the system look broke. It is. I think it is a little late to be asking opinion. The good ole boy system will come back and we can pay our buddies more. The military writes their job descriptions and walk back in the door as civilians for the job description they just wrote for themselves. I work for military and support military, but think they should compete for opportunity along with the rest of us. Sorry, but if I had a choice, which I don't, pay banding would be good for Congress on a trial basis and then we would see if it would be good for us. Might even see if Mr. Rumsfeld would get a raise under this system with a look at how unsatisfied people are with his leadership. The government has continued to not increase the pay to match competitive civilian jobs which has continued to deteriorate the present system. We have been encouraged and forced in some cases to be under FERS vs CSRS knowing that Social Security may not be there for the one-third of the retirement plan. This pay banding is a method to force out older workers - discriminate against them - hire the younger worker and pay them more than the one that has been in service and is too young to retire and will have to succumb to this ludicrous pay banding system. 20+ Years of Service