| Comment Number: | OL-10504490 |
| Received: | 3/9/2005 2:47:01 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:
9901.323 and 9901.334 Under the current General Schedule system, employees know that anyone in their grade will be paid roughly the same within a range. How will employees be able to tell under NSPS whether they are being paid fairly or comparably to their colleagues who are performing substantially the same job/duties/functions at essentially the same level and at a similar level of performance? Will salary/pay (basic and supplemental) be available online? For example, if out of 20 people working for a supervisor, 3 of us do the essentially the same work and are relative equals with regard to amount and quality of experience and work output, how can we know that our pay is fair among the three of us, the group of 20 working for our supervisor, and the larger NSPS community? And how will we know whether our supervisor is conservative (that is, tends to give smaller pay increases) compared with other supervisors? How will women know they are being compensated fairly compared with men? How will minority employees know they are being compensated fairly compared with nonminority employees? How will the members of one minority group know that they are being paid fairly compared with the members of other minority groups? DoD must make salary information readily available to employees, along with other data (for example, gender and race) to make these kinds of analyses. Otherwise, since employees' names, job titles, and salary are public information, DoD will be snowed under with FOIA requests.