| Comment Number: | OL-10502370 |
| Received: | 3/1/2005 6:30:31 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:
My concerns with the NSPS system are too many and to multi-dimensional to address in one letter. So, for the purpose of this first letter, I will address the basic philosophical and political concerns I have concerning DoD’s actions throughout this process. More specific letters will be forth-coming as I study and interpret the proposed regulations that will govern NSPS. I agree there are many flaws in the current GS system. These flaws can sometimes unfairly limit management and sometimes unjustly impact employees. I can appreciate management’s call for change and employees fear of change. Both have their points of view. We have worked together for many generations to build the strongest military and the greatest Department of Defense in the world. I want to believe we can work together to secure change that will give management the tools to function and serve the needs of the military, the president, the congress and the people of this country. I want to believe we can work together to secure a change that does not forget to include a system of checks and balances that provide for a fair, equitable and ethical resolution to problems that can arise in any large organization when the perceived needs of management bump heads with the perceived rights of employees. I want to be team player, to wait and give NSPS a fair and unbiased review. But I can’t. The facts are clear, DoD doesn’t want to work with me. DoD chose to conceive and create NSPS in a biased and exclusionary forum. Over a hundred members of Congress have expressed their dissatisfaction with DoD’s exclusionary methods. Employee Unions have complained about DoD’s exclusionary methods. But the most arrogant exclusion of all was the employees who lay in the path of NSPS. We are the people DoD has decided to steam roll over with this new system. DoD’s rhetoric to everyone addressing it’s behavior has been transparent and condescending. DoD’s actions have demonstrated a lack of respect for the authority of Congress; a lack of respect for the rights of Employee Unions; and a total cold-hearted, disregard for the employees who work side by side with you every day. I have faith that your irreverence has and will continue to open the eyes of more and more members of Congress and their scrutiny towards your actions will be thorough and forth-coming. I have faith that the Unions will pursue the appropriate legal remedies available to them, and I have faith that employees will stand-up and be heard. I assure you I will. That is still my American birthright and civic duty.