| Comment Number: | OL-10501070 |
| Received: | 2/23/2005 12:26:36 PM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
| No Attachments |
Comments:
This will foster the buddy-buddy and good ole boy system back to the way it was 20-30 years ago. We do not need another system where unless you go golfing/fishing/hunting with the supervisor you will not get a raise of any sort. This will also be a discrimination tool against the older work force. All we hear now is the "care and feeding of the junior work force". This has created lower morale among the older work force and with this system they will "feed" the raises to the younger employees and "starve" the older work force. Everybody seems to forget that we are the ones with the experience and that a college education will not teach you anything about the jobs we do in the Department of Defense. Your response will probably be that it can be used as a tool to retain the older, experienced workforce, but I can guarantee at Tinker Air Force Base that will not be the case. As it stands now, we have a very large generation of baby boomers who will be retiring in a few years and if you surveyed them, they would tell you that this discrimination is going on in the form of the "junior college-educated work force" getting preference for professional level schools so they can be advanced over the experienced personnel. This web site still does not answer the question about the annual cost of living raises. Will there still be one and will they be automatic?