| Comment Number: | OL-10502911 |
| Received: | 3/3/2005 12:05:30 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 have mixed thoughts about the NSPS. Along the positive column I list the following: clearer delineation of job requirements and expectations; greater flexibility to reward outstanding performers on a yearly basis; and the promise of a less cumbersome hiring process. Performance Management--Subpart D On the negative I foresee: tremendous increase of supervisor's time spent detailing subordinate responsibilities and expectations--as new mssion taskings are handed down, revision of the employer to employee 'contract' will be required; Pay and Pay Administration- Subpart C Inequity in the allocation of awards as diverse missions may share the same pay pool; lowered employee morale as each appraisal period will determine the annual salary, instead of being a period in which the outstanding performer receives a bonus {various levels available} in addition to the annual basic salary increase that all employees currently receive. Under NSPS, will military members continue to receive an annual pay increase as they work alongside civilian government workers who may or may not receive comparable increases? If so, how will it affect the morale of the Total Force? Why impose this new system on the entire government work force before it has proven itself in smaller portions of the government? If it has been tried and proven successful, get the word out as a marketing event. Nothing that I've read thus far indicates that NSPS has been embraced by the workforce as a positive move. On the whole NSPS, if not just a desire to do something different, appears to be an attempt to allow more autonomy within governmental agencies to hire and fire whom they please (opportunity for cronyism to run rampant) while negatively impacting/reducing the avenues of redress for the average worker. In summary, I think the civil service system needs to be reviewed and improved upon, but NSPS as proposed does not portend to be an improved system that will develop a higher performing body of dedicated civil servants.