| Comment Number: | OL-10503869 |
| Received: | 3/7/2005 9:33:33 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 am adamently against the implimentation of the NSPS in the DoD. The Pentgon has not bargined in good faith with the unions as suppossedly claimed by the government and is trying to ramrod this scheme down the throats of all hard-working civil service workers in the DoD. The cost is prohibitive (at least $158 million for the implimentation of the pay sections of NSPS and untold millions for funding managment training, a new adjudication system for employees and other "hidden" costs) in light of the fact we are spending far more than we have available fighting a war against "terrorists" and have not the financial and human resources to adaquately prevail in this conflict. How many ships, aircraft and armored personnel carriers, etc. that are in short supply already will be scrapped to pay for this new and unneccessary program. How many more military bases will be closed at the expense of countless thousands of federal employees to pay for this unproven scheme. At the cost of $10,000 per employee the DHS is paying to to impliment its new personnel system, it's not hard to invision several billion dollars to do the same thing in the 750,000 employee DoD. Since when did the United States Federal employee become the enemy that the Pentagon wants to demonize by stripping collective bargining rights and recourse to rectify proections against potentional abuse from supervisors. We will have no defining line between military and civilian roles in the DoD fight against enemies of this nation and, as civilians, could be deployed to war zones without notice and legal recourse. Work hours could be changed at the whim of the employees' supervisor as is now the practice in the armed services. Rewards to the highest performing employees are already in place. Employees receive cash awards and higher ratings in RIF actions who receive superior performance ratings NOW. Will those people who receive raises due to their superior performance ratings receive them at the expense of those people who get average ratings or less? The Pentagon will not say for sure what the details are in that portion of NSPS. I don't see a group of 20 or more people under one supervisor having more than 1 or 2 "outstanding" employees being granted raises in this new NSPS when it's concievable that as many as 50% or more of them could deserve an "outstanding" performance rating. The senority rules will change the method of reduction-in-force actions and layoffs. Veterans preference is not supossed to be altered but the Pentagon will not tell how it will be implimented in NSPS as oppossed to the current personnel system.