| Comment Number: | OL-10502584 |
| Received: | 3/2/2005 1:16:21 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 am a military officer that has experience evaluating civil service hiring, individual potential and performance. Although the proposed system offers many improvements for civilian employment practices, the Performance Based Pay Plan introduces a most disturbing change. This single change proposal is the greastest source of anxiety as future pay becomes personality preference based, rather than experience or performance based. The proposed method lends itself to, at best, creating an over-inflated evaluation system, all too similar to the current military evaluation system. At worst, the system would allow a single biased supervisor to permanently damage an individual's pay basis. The only means to preclude this, for base pay, would be to limit the choice to either "Meets Standard", or "Does Not Meet Standard", with sufficient documentation required for "Does Not Meet Standards". Anything else is too subjective. Bonus pay suggestions, as submitted, are simply incentive to create hostile office politics, throughout the civil service. Bonus pay must be limited in scope and availability, as only for command-level award winners. Even at that, the bonuses become more directly tied to the supervisor's willingness or ability to write packages, rather than a civilian employees's individual performance.