| Comment Number: | OL-10502953 |
| Received: | 3/3/2005 2:13:49 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 believe that there should be some type of exemption from this new personnel system for those employees with 15 to 20 years or more in civil service. This is not because of the changes in hiring and firing procedures or arbitration rules. This is because of the proposed changes in the pay system. People (like me) who have worked many, many years in civil service and have gotten to a certain grade and pay level should be allowed to keep that same pay level and the incremental step increases associated with that pay level. I find it completely unacceptable that after 22 years in civil service, I do not know what my pay will be a year from now. I do not know if I will be able to make my house payments. I have read on this website that we are guaranteed by law to keep our same pay during the changeover from real civil service to NSPS. But immediately after the changeover, anything can happen. Although this new system is bad for ALL DoD civil servants, those of us with many years of dedicated service to the government should not be treated as if we are a threat to national security. Most of us with 15 or 20 or more years in civil service are here because we do our jobs well. The notion that it is difficult to hire and fire civil servants is a myth perpetuated by the private sector to justify contracting out of our jobs.