| Comment Number: | OL-10503661 |
| Received: | 3/7/2005 11:06:09 AM |
| 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:
The NSPS proposals are written in so much legalese that it is difficult to follow. If I have read it correctly however, it seems to me that the new rules will effectively do away with our right to a union since any agreement with them can be ignored. I was under the impression that our government protected unions. Apparently, that is only when the people in them don't work for the government. My understanding is that raises would no longer come every year but be based on performance. That would be good in a perfect world where there is a fair appraisal of your performance. However, in the real world, performance appraisals can be affected by how your supervisor feels about you personally not just your job performance. Your evaluation could also be affected by the bottom line. If people are given poor evaluations, there would be no raises and therefore you would save money. Seniority would be a thing of the past. This opens the door to letting go people with the most seniority simply because they are getting older. This is illegal and we are protected against it by law. This proposal would strip away that protection. This might be a sound proposal in a perfect world but we all know that this world is far from perfect. This proposal would allow the government to do to it's civilian employee's that for which it would haul any privately owned company in the nation into court for doing. It opens the door to discrimination based on age, gender, race or anything else that could affect a supervisor's opinion of you. It is inherently unfair. Please, reconsider.