| Comment Number: | OL-10503795 |
| Received: | 3/7/2005 3:47:04 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:
How about an anonymous comment/suggestion box for this? What do the unions have to say about this? I know of other government agencies that have gone to this system. The way it works out in the end is very different from the way it is portrayed in the "sales pitch" we were given at a recent town hall meeting. The end result is that the monies are grouped together in one pot and people bust their ass all year, then at the end of the year "oops, the pot is empty, so sorry, maybe next year". This may be used to get rid of dead weight in the government, but it will do the exact opposite. Your same old dead weight will still be here because they can still make the same wage regardless of how productive they are. The people who will leave are your smart, productive, competent folks who keep the whole system running and carry the dead weight...we can get another job and are willing to work for it. A few years down the road after hearing "oops" and "sorry the pot is empty" too many times, we will start to leave. Good luck trying to get the dead weight to do our jobs. In the end it is still up to supervisors as to who will advance in pay. If you are worthless as a worker, but in good with your boss, you are set. If you bust your butt all year every year, but you aren't the bosses favorite...you could never do enough work to advance. It has basically been that way all along, so what's so different about this to change what really needs to be changed?!?!?! The only thing people like those mentioned above have to hang onto is that automatic step increase and the yearly COLA. We were told in our town hall meeting that the COLA was going into the same pot as everything else. I can't believe that is even legal. Why beat around the bush? Make it easier/possible to fire the dead weight and get rid of them, then pay the productive people better across the board.