| Comment Number: | OL-10504448 |
| Received: | 3/9/2005 1:35:19 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:
The end of automatic step increases and a new classification system impacts federal employees adversely. This will only give poor managers the weapons they have been seeking for years. The end of utilizing seniority as a factor, sets the stage for fed workers to move to the private sector. To end the right to bargain over working conditions is preposterous. Considering all the stress families are experiencing today, the inability to bargain over working conditions impacts these familes significantly. An end to having a management decision mitigated by an MSPB judge smacks of preferences given to management and the employee is treated with disdain. Third party appeals are more objective, then an in-house board selected by: Guess Who - MANAGEMENT The loss of weingarten rights is a definite attack on all who are not in the management ranks. The demise of this will create chaos. Who will report waste, fraud and abuse? It certainly won't be the managers and now the workers will be unable to report due to financial repercussions. Losing pay raises attacks the whole family structure, particularly when those pay raises will not really be based on performance. I have worked for the federal government for 21 years and I am really shaken over these proposed changes. Both of my parents were veterans. There are a significant amount of veterans that work in the federal sector. These proposed changes are reflective of big money Americans.