| Comment Number: | OL-10501876 |
| Received: | 2/28/2005 11:09:04 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:
The system you are setting up may seem to benefit the DoD managers, but in the long run the well-qualified will leave the system and the DoD civilian pool will be over-run with inexperienced, unqualifyed personnel using these jobs as entry level work to gain experience to add to their resumes. I left a State Employment situation shortly after they enacted some of the same planned changes, and have been relieved many times over to not be working for a system where managers were given such preference over my livelihood. While I have enjoyed my work with the DoD, I would not want to stay in a system where a junior Captain in his/her first job as a supervisor would have such control over pay increases and duty assignments. Furthermore, injecting a pay-band system and eliminating within-grade increases are not to anyone's benefit since they complete zap any motivation an employee would have to take on extra assignments an/or special projects. I think the entire proposal should be scrapped. There seems to be no merit to any of it.