Comment Number: OL-10502337
Received: 3/1/2005 4:33:08 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:

I've read many comments that have been made concerning the very real possibility of favoritism. So I won't rehash that. Given that there is a fixed amount of money for raises, a quota will eventually be used to monitor the amount of money earmarked for employees. True to form, a percentage will probably be parsed out to the various supervisors/managers for them to allocate. What happens when a supervisor is blessed with a team of all high performers? Does he give them each less than the sole high performer on another team? This system will, although unintentional, create competition of the worse type by people vying for those raises. "Dog eat dog" in the corporate world will make it into the civil service. If all civil service would be considered deployable, what happens to those with medical conditions that prevent them from doing so? Will they be forced to retire or fired? If not, do the deployable personnel get extra pay to make up for their added responsibility? Being deployable requires a person be prepared just like the military especially when children, etc, is on the line. Will civil service get free medical care to maintain their health for deployability? How do you account for both husband and wife being members of the civil service? Will their be an automatic join spouse option? Imposing the new practices on new employees where they are briefed and accept those conditions is equivalent to someone joining the military and having to accept the fact they may be sent to war. This new system is being forced on current employees. This is causing a "take it or quit" scenario which can only cause widespread discontent or a dramatic exodus of employees. It would seem that even though more costly to do so, all current civil service personnel should be left under the old system. Future civil service could join under the new proposed system. In about 20-30 years, most all of the GSers would be gone.