| Comment Number: | OL-10502264 |
| Received: | 3/1/2005 2:07:01 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:
Why bother? All this is, is the GS pay system in new clothes. Pay bands are interesting, but all they do is follow the old system in that the bands are broken up into "grades" one has to be "promoted" to even within the pay band. And they overlap - why? This is a problem within the curent system too where, at every grade there is the potential for a more junior employee to be paid as much or more than a higher ranking employee. If there will be separate technical and management pay bands in order to pay important, non-supervisory technical personnel as much as managers, why overlap the bands? Shouldn't the move to the next pay band mean that you actually make more money than those who work for you or only have Master's degrees without experience? The protections within the GS system are overdone, but I have not met many Federal managers capable of working fairly within the system even with its protections. Take away protections and add pay bands and the government becomes a scary, and much less desirable, place to work; especially for middle and upper level personnel. The GS system leaves a lot to be desired, but unless it is changed to fix its problems, we should find somewhere else to spend our time and taxpayer money. This proposal does not fix the problems with pay or the government's inablilty to manage its people.