| Comment Number: | OL-10501494 |
| Received: | 2/25/2005 1:00:40 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: Subpart B Classification 89901.301-373- Pay Banding No reduction in pay but no assurance for next step or promotion. What a ridiculous idea. When I retire I would like to be at the highest pay I can. How is this fair? Setting and adjusting rate ranges: Subpart C 9901.301-373 With the cost of living increasing daily how can a person live on a minimum or no increase at all dependent on the band you are in. If I do not get an annual increase and I perform well I might get a little something. If I am a poor performer hope my latest pay is good to keep me going. Based on your figures if the minimum rate doesn't increase there is no pay raise. That hasn't happened in many a year so how do you plan to justify that to everyone? DOD says perfromance payout will depend on amt of money in pay pool. What is a share? Supervisor will decide on how much the pay increase will be. Well what if you have a good supervisor and he likes you and you do a good job this is not a problem. You have a conflict with your supervisor so there goes your rating/shares and no pay increase. No supervisor should decide solely whether an employee gets a pay raise or not. Across the board pay raises with incentives at appraisal time are much more effective. Pay pool manager will decide if I can have the amount my supervisor says. What gives the pay pool manager the right to change anything? Too much authority to one person. Subpart D 9901.401-409 Challenging a rating: No grievance process is not fair to the employee on their appraisal rating. This is absurd. There are always circumstances to be ironed out when there is a grievance. Sometimes it is legitmate and sometimes not. Sometimes just a misunderstanding. To have no say internal or external is wrong for the employee. Subpart B Classification 9901.231-373 Conversion During the conversion I will not suffer a pay loss however there is no idea how I will move to the next step if I ever do. Why did I work all these years not to be able to move up when I am getting close to retirement. Subpart C Pay and Pay Administration 9901.311-321-323 DOD will adjust rate ranges as it believes necessary. So the cost of living will never change. So if the minimum rate based on all kinds of factors does not rise I don't get a pay raise. What a ridiculous assumption that rates won't rise. Cost of living goes up every year and will continue to do so. Performance payouts 9901.341-342 My fellow employee has to get less for me to get more. How fair is this? Plus a supervisor decides soley what you get. Then this pay pool person comes along and says no to what you want to do. Who administers the pay pool? That has not been made clear in anything I have read. My squadron, finance, civilian personnel, some hot shot in Washington. No where in anything I have read does NSPS address the issue of retirees. Once you are retired do you get a yearly raise or do you stay at the amount you got when you retired? Impossible to live on for 20 years. There are too many holes in this whole plan. Everyone is going to be a loser here and there will be no winners.