| Comment Number: | OL-10503943 |
| Received: | 3/8/2005 8:25:30 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:
Pay and compensation: After reading some of the previously submitted comments I realized most everyone has the same fear about this. It will allow managers to further promote the good ol' boys syndrome based on their personal subjective alliances. There isn't any equity in the current rating system and NSPS will not change it. Veteran's preference: The Civil service was formed to give the vet a job but more and more the federal government seems to have forgotten that and continues to turn it's back on it's vets at every opportunity. NSPS doesn't give any compelling indications that it's going to help the veteran get or keep their jobs. The interns appear to be favored now and will certainly be favored under NSPS. Retirement: The high 3 computation currently used under the GS pay system will go away. Salaries will be determined very differently than under the current GS pay schedule. In any given year, you may receive no raise at all, your performance-based share of the pay pool may come only in the form of an award, or you may have your pay reduced by as much as ten percent. Under NSPS the high three will no longer be as predictable as it has been under the GS pay schedule. I see this as a way of forcing people out of civil service because if they are eligble for retirement all a supervisor has to do is rropose a decrease in pay. The employee will retire before having their high three affected. Collective bargaining rights: They appear to be gone under NSPS. Why?