| Comment Number: | OL-10504541 |
| Received: | 3/9/2005 4:26:38 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.ALL In general I have to say that after working for the DOD for close to 24 years now and seeing people abuse the system over and over I agree that we have to find a way to "fix it". But, in no way do I agree with the process outlined in this proposal. I believe this proposal should be grandfathered in, or phased in. This would allow the DOD to keep the contracts they agreed on when I began my career in Civil Service. I believe my rights are being taken away from me after spending my entire adult life supporting my country in the only way I could. I had to have my hip pinned together when I was 13 years old and was not 18 years old until after the draft was over. The military would not accept me for medical reasons so I began my Civil Service career when I was 20 years old. My specific arguments are listed below by sub paragraph. 99901.200 I feel there needs to be something done about job classification. In my experience the problem is just the opposite of what you are doing. The jobs need to be more specific vs. more vague. Currently I am a GS-0335-07 Computer Assistant. When I left the USAF Academy in Aug 2003 people doing what I am doing now were (and still are) classed as a GS 2210-09 Computer Specialist. They receive a greater rate of pay because they were in a hard to fill position. I am doing the same job, and working on my own for a group of 60-75 people and getting paid $15,000.00 less. This is because the position descriptions are already too vague. You propose to leave them more open to interpretation then they already are. Someone should send out questioners to every civilian that hold a certain position and ask what their specific duties include. Have their supervisor verify their answer then list them in a database and clarify what position should be doing which job. Then pay those individuals accordingly. I do not think it is fair for a computer specialist that is a one man help desk for an entire organization, get paid less than a computer specialist that works at a help desk doing the same things and gets paid substantially more. Your answer will open that up even more and leave most of it up to the supervisor and a lot of personal matters could get involved as well. It needs to be, "you get paid for what you do instead of who you know". 9901.300 Pay Bands I believe there should be more flexibility for pay increases. I am afraid that the decision should be a group input. I think to leave this up to supervisor and management then they will operate just like congress and senate... The managers will get the raises and the “workerbees” will lose out. Pay for merit is great, then base it on awards received, input from customers, performance evaluations... Let everyone decide, not just the supervisor. Include a survey in every order (to whoever the customer is) Base salery increases on how the individual actually works. Base it on how willing he or she is to train for more things, and how well they score when they do. Base it somewhat on real data vs. personal input of one or two people. 99901.400 Performance Management A lot of the last applies to this as well. I would like to just add, after 24 dedicated years of service and many rewards and awards for the performance I have given to my country... I am sure going to be angry if a position is removed that I am sitting in 2 years before my retirement and some young person that has just begun his or her career is given the opportunity to stay and I am forced to retire, or worse not let to retire. I may not be able to keep up with someone a little younger than me but would hope that the time I have spent doing what I do will account for something when it comes to RIF, downsizing and contracting out civil service jobs! Again we need to look at grandfathering certain eligible employees and rewarding them for their dedicated service.