| Comment Number: | OL-10503963 |
| Received: | 3/8/2005 8:55:47 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:
We are told that 80% of government workers if polled feel they are in the top 20% of workforce performers and thus have nothing to fear from NSPS but could only prosper by its introduction. But we can quickly see that there is an error in the math here. Many of the 80% (in fact some 60%) will be shocked to find they are not in this top echelon and that rather than benefiting from the bonus money being given to the 20%, they will be contributing to the bonus of the top 20%. (Keep in mind that NSPS does not produce more money from which wage increases and bonus' can be paid; it merely uses a different method in distributing the existing money that is now and will be available.) That is why in austere times it is conceivable that some may even take pay cuts to provide funds for the top pay band employees. We need to consider some of these kinds of things, especially if we are a young federal worker. There may be some big time winners but there are going to be a lot more average "Joes" that pay for the stars. Sports and Hollywood can have their Million Dollar Babies but there is no place in the government for these kinds of people. We are heading toward the old political patronage system with this change; mark my words.