| Comment Number: | OL-10503888 |
| Received: | 3/8/2005 4:47:37 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:
Too Whom it May Concern: What is the incentive to retain personal for the long term - ie a career ? These are the types of personal in the long run you should wish to retain, but - you are removing built in pay raises or having no agreed responsibilities to provide periodic pay increases due to tenure. You seem to be removing responsibility for the employer to provide any pay increases over time and thus suppress the work force wages at will. Things like we want a new carrier / office furnature… no pay raises for 5 years to pay for it out of our buget… 5 years pass and we want another carrier / new computers… it happens in the private sector all the time, but they also have rights of strike and unions that are powerful / functional vice token figurines and tenure is rewarded. Isn't an employee working for the government over the years not have an increasing value over time, this proposal seems to ignore that. ALSO what prevents an organization, say a shipyard, from hiring in a fair number of new personal - rating them higher than the older more experienced personal (hirer paid) - performing a RIF a couple of years later to reduce payroll costs / expenses under this system ? With grouping performance over tenure, tenure is meaningless. - richie arendsee, federal employee for 18 years and counting