Comment Number: OL-10503461
Received: 3/5/2005 4:50:52 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 searched the proposed regulations and have found nothing mentioning the civilian employees who are also members of the armed forces reserve. In a system where raises and bonuses are based on performance supervisors will be forced to rank mobilized or deployed reservists lower than their coworkers. A low ranking could be based on nothing other than the fact that these people were not around to perform the work required by their civilian occupation, thus making them look, on paper, like they are substandard performers compaired to their office mates. Without taking their service into consideration, this will put mobilized reservists in the same situation as many of their private sector counterparts. The worst case would be losing their jobs while deployed or upon return from deployment. A more likely scenario would be that the DoD civilian who is also a military reservist will be penalized for their service by excluding them from competition for leadership positions, bonuses and pay raises.