| Comment Number: | OL-10502214 |
| Received: | 3/1/2005 11:44:58 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:
My comments concern the "Pay Banding". How can employees be fairly and impartially rewarded with higher pay for performance when most DoD employees are a part of an organization where "Team Work" is essential to mission accomplishment? If at the end of the year my organization wins a "Best Unit Award" does that mean we all get a pay raise even if a few employees did nothing to make that happen? "Pay for Performance" I thought we were already being paid for that. The fact that we work hard to achieve that next step in the GS/FWS pay grid, work hard to obtain the skills and job knowledge required to go from a 7 to a 9 or a 9 to an 11. There are some who are happy to just be where they are, and some who want to achieve more. Are you telling me that if I'm a "go getter" attend school to gain skills, a college degree, work hard and "joe schmo" over here comes to work does what little needs to be done to get by and then goes home for the day deserves to be paid the same I do? Because if he and the boss are fishing buddies that's exactly what will happen. Or if the boss is spending a little additional quality time with little miss short skirt? Where is the fairness in that? There won't be any equality in this so called "Pay for Performance" there will always be an always has been "favoritism" in the performance arena. I have seen it and witnessed it. Who will have the final say on pay raises? Unit commanders? How will the funds be managed? If at the end of the year the funds allocated for civilian pay have not been spent will the remaider roll over to the following year? Or if it is not spent will the budget then be lowered like squadron budgets making less money available for pay raises? Will seniority play into the decision making? Or will a new hire make the same money as someone who been on the job for 5 years or more? Why are you trying to destroy the federal employee system and drive it into a non-functionable entity with this NSPS? The Department of Homeland Security was able to establish this system for themselves because it was a new department, if their employees are happy with it then let them keep it. I worked for DHS before and I will just say this...I don't work for them anymore because of the paybanding. You are sure to lose a lot of experinced, hard working, dedicated men and women due to this system. It's unfair, it does not take care of the employee, it will pit employee against employee for raises negating the true focus of taking care of our Soldiers, Sailors, Airman and Marines. Re-think this NSPS matter...give some thought to maintaing the GS/FWS system atleast then we know what we are working for rather than focusing on the fact that in order to be paid what we know we are worth we have to either find new employment or stab our co-workers in the back for a raise. I don't like it I think it forces people from their jobs and I will continue to send my concerns to my congressman because I think what we are presented with here far outweighs what congress intended. Will Don Rumsfeld be taking part in this NSPS system? If so I sure would like to offer a few words on his performance. Words like "Abu Gharib", "WMD", "Invading Iraq under false pretenses", "Unecessary loss of American lives" and last but not least "Took his eye off the prize, allowed Bin Laden to escape and still have not found him". Sadam Hussein, any man who has to go from living in lavish palaces to a hole in the ground is not enough of a threat to expend what Don Rumsfeld has on him. Think he'll be ok if he does not receive a raise after that performance report?