| Comment Number: | OL-10504126 |
| Received: | 3/8/2005 1:57:59 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:
Sorry, but I’m suspicious… After almost twenty years of civil service, I fear that NPS will result in a loss for the GS-12 and below employee, and a gain for the management and executive levels. I came to work for the Government just after FERS replaced CSRS. What a wonderful deal that was… That improvement in the system for employees will cost me about $12,000 a year in retirement benefits even with TSP. Fairness has never been a word that I would associate with DoD’s actual policies. If a change is proposed, I immediately assume someone, higher up, will benefit and we will pay for it. While even the current system talks a good story about a level playing field for hiring, advancement and other opportunities, I fear that under NPS it will be a return of the old ways of managers taking care of each other and only rewarding those who benefit them personally. I fear that DoD will fall under the same Gestapo-like mentality of Homeland Security. There, employee protections can be suspended at will, by management, to meet any real or imagined threat to security. And where any disagreement equates to disloyalty, which becomes grounds for dismissal. I guess you’ll save a lot of retirement money, which will please Mr. Rumsfeld, if you watch and wait for high-tenure employees to give you an excuse to dismiss them. Hopefully, I’ll be able to retire before I run afoul of a selfish manager or other official.