| Comment Number: | OL-10504224 |
| Received: | 3/8/2005 6:19:50 PM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
| No Attachments |
Comments:
I am a career civil service employee with over 30 years of Federal Service. I am opposed to the Pay Banding system based on the inability that I have seen through the years for supervisors to be impartial. It is hard not to do, because it is human nature. Everyone has some paradigm that works in how they deal with other people. An example from early in my career, was a supervisor telling me that I deserved to get a high rating (which would have resulted in a cash award), but since I had recieved a Special Achievement in the past 6 months (with a cash award), that I was going to be lumped in the pack with everyone else, so someone else could get a higher rating (with the subsequent cash award). So basically, I was denied a higher rating because I had accomplished a good thing (I believe this would be one of the criteria in the pay banding system, that would justify having your pay raised), and someone else that had not done something "out of the ordinary" recieved a cash award, just because the supervisor thought that everyone should get a "treat" occaisionally. When and if "human nature" can be taken out of the formula that a supervisor uses to interact with those working for/with him, then something like pay-banding might have a slim chance in being successful. The current pay scale, with automatic step increases based on tenure, allows workers to work toward and achieve steady increases in pay. I do a good job, and try to serve my country to the best of my abilities. Loyalty should be a two-way street, or it can not be achieved.