| Comment Number: | OL-10504530 |
| Received: | 3/9/2005 3:59:44 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:
1. Writing: Low and mid level supervisors that I have been in contact with have limited to no writing skills. When it comes time for my evaluations, these supervisors will not have the skills to articulate what I have accomplished through out the year. The finished product will reflect poorly on me and affect my chances of promotion. Supervisors and workers need a solid education on performance writing, awards and documentation skills before this system goes into effect. Personnel will have to attend classes on how to write evaluations and document a workers performance through out the year. Under the current system of pass or fail, supervisors did not have to document anything or articulate a workers performance, good, bad or indifferent. Now, suddenly, they will be forced to. This will resort in two types of evaluations; well-written or at least understandable evaluations, or canned comments used for everyone within a section. In a perfect world, this system will reward those deserving and weed out the unproductive. However, in the world of the civil service I have seen so far, favoritism, insouciance, and indolent supervisors will cause the loss or de-motivation of a lot of good hard working people. Please provide in-depth and sustenance training to all levels of supervisors well before you implement any of these changes. 2. Union representation at the field location is critical. Unions have long supported following of the rules. Frustration is felt most often by supervisor not following the rules, and workers not being told what the rules are. Changing from Civil Service, as we know it today to NSPS tomorrow will not change a thing if no one knows the rules. Rules need to be clear and easy to understand. I as a worker must know how to go from a GS-01 to a GS-13. The road map for me to do this must be the same for the person at the desk next to me, and the person on the other side of the globe. Saying these are the rules is not enough, we need a classroom sit down with knowledgeable teachers to show us how we can work within the system. The simplest rule can be interpreted in multiple ways. If you are taught the rules and told what the intent is behind the rule, and how it is to be used, there is less likely hood of mistakes. 3. Please answer how overtime is going to be paid. From what I have seen so far under the 0081 series, the DoD cannot pay their personnel correctly when it comes to overtime. Overtime in the civilian sector means time and a half, not some rather hocus pocus pay scale scheme currently in place.