| Comment Number: | OL-10504264 |
| Received: | 3/8/2005 9:04:53 PM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
| Attachment: | NSPS Comments.doc Download Adobe Reader |
Comments:
My comments, for pages 7552 - 7574, are attached. I will attempt to provide more comments regarding the remaining portion of this proposal if I can. I believe, with my work-load and my home-life schedule, that I was not given fair or adequate time to make comments on this proposal. Most of the employees that I work with do not want anything at all to do with the proposed NSPS. There is a general concensus among my peers that this proposal is being forced on them and that the unions are not being fairly listened to on this matter. I have peers that are accepting this proposal not because they believe the changes are fair or honest or that the proposal makes for a more agile and better national Security HRMS, but because they feel that there is nothing that can be done and in some cases they fear retribution. The comments that I make are mine and mine alone in the hopes that NSPS will abandon this project and evolve the current system into a better one--and something that DoD, Civil Servants, and the Union can all proclaim is a better system. Modifying the current HRMS as outlined in this proposal demonstrates a profound under appreciation for the Civil Work Force, their challenges and also the unions part in the security of the United States of America. Something that permeates your proposal is the fact that the current system is old and antiquated. I disagree. Today's GS system is the most modern and honest and open systems it the world. It is not without fault, but to infer that we should try to move to a system more like our contemporary civilian counterparts is misguided. Do you disagree that there are not workers all over the world who would opt to have a disclosed pay scale (like ours) available to them so that they could determine how they would be compensated for their years of dedicated service and their experience. I would like you to consider the following scenario in earnest....suppose that there were two identically cloned government civilian workers working within the US government in the same job series and in the same grade. Both equally doing the same quality of work. At the end of 5 years those two civilian employees would be making two different sums of money, because in five years they would have been rated by several different supervisors with different personalities and different managment philosophies--even though they were identical performers. The current GS civilian pay system ensures fairness because it transcends individual management philosophies and bases pay on rank and experience--just like the currently military DOD pay scale; rank and time-in-grade. The proposed NSPS system guarantees inequity between our two identical hypothetical employees. Furthermore, I believe that the current proposed system focuses on the wrong GS employees. This system is built for the below average GS employee who is not out there making enormous sacrifices on a day-to-day basis. After having been an enlisted member, an officer, a Government Civil Service Employee that now is also a Reservist, I understand and appreciate each of these systems better and the challenges each systems face. This proposed system does not inspire, it intimidates. It does not lead by example, it cajoles with unsubstantiated promises. It is not fair and open, it bargains behind closed doors. It does not pay for an incrementally better work force that has expereince over time, it dismisses experience in favor of favorites; regardless of whether the more experience civil servant is doing the job correctly. This system does not breed team work and honesty it breeds dishonesty and takes pay right out of the Public Servants hand who is already compensated far less than this Civilian counterpart who would be doing the same level of work. Bob Dangredo W: 618-229-2280 DSN: 779-2280 H: 618-667-2037 E-mail Work: Robert.dangredo.ve@scott.af.mil E-mail Home: Rdangredo@charter.net Very respectfully, Bob Dangredo