| Comment Number: | OL-10503726 |
| Received: | 3/7/2005 1:36:15 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:
Performance Management Subpart D and Adverse Actions Subpart-G I have 26 years of government service with DLA. After reading the proposed new NSPS System, I thank God that I am nearing the end of my government career.. I cannot imagine the managers haveing more authority than they now possess. I have seen white male managers physically threaten women that were too afraid to exert their rights. I myself have been informed by my white supervisor that I had no rights to have an opinion regarding my GS-11-1102 contracting duties because I was black and female; and he was white male GS-13, non-contracting. Federal managers historically abuse their authority under the current system. There is no accountibility but at least managers that make decisions based on racial bias cannot fire anyone by using trumped up reasons when in reality, they hate your skin color. Federal employees are not simply promoted; nor do they recieve step increases automatically. Their managers must determine that their performance is at a level justifying the increase; and some have been denied their step. It seem this new system has nothing to do with homeland security and everything to do with stripping a certain group of employees of their civil rights and all recourses when their rights are violated by also stripping the unions of their rights to effectively represent employess that have been unfairly mistreated or discriminated against. Federal employees are not threats to this country many of us would glady give our lives for our country; even though we have been mistreated for years. The current merit promotion system has a history of nepotism, favortism, cronism and all the other isms; but at least now there is a dispute resolution or others venues that at times effect correct and fair actions when the individual is persistant. The new NSPS will in effect return us to the 1960s; and have nothing to do with National Security. Managers are government employees too. This proposed language implies that those that supervise are such a select group that they are the only ones that have rights or can be trust with the security of the US and approx. 600,000 employees This right provides them the authority to hire and fire at will based on their superority, education, exposure to all groups, moral consciousness; what? There is something ethically and morally wrong with this plan and there is nothing good in it for those without a voice.