| Comment Number: | OL-10504890 |
| Received: | 3/10/2005 12:05:44 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:
Help us why is this happening this is completely un American! Your asking for comments by 16 March when we won't know the full financal impact until July. I'm 50 years old and have gone through BRAC and displaced from Texas to Oklahoma I've paid my dues and been loyal to our Country and my reward for working for the Government is a new pay system that will elimiate my rights in a RIF using my SCD! This seems an easy way to fire folks that are close to retirement. Those new professionals that NSPS attracts are the mostly likely to fire or reduce pay of older workforce due to generation gap attitudes. The whole need for a new pay and performance management system because the current system pays the same for high and poor performers is FALSE!The supervisor today as the system stands does not and should not reward poor performance and the cost of living raise can also not be paid if the supervisor fills out the paperwork to stop it from automatically going in! To whom are are disciplinary and appeals procedures confusing and inefficiet? As a supervisor I've gone through this entire process several times and I always felt good about the action taken as I know the employee had a fair and unbais judgement. The new NSPS eliminates a fair hearing on adversed actions as it's left to Mangement teams to hear an employees case instead of disinterested officials!!! This is nazism at the core!!!!! Stability is what attracts professionals to government service which NSPS will dissolve. The idea that we need to change the current system because we can't cover mission needs because the system is rigid and inflexiable is an excuse for NSPS. NSPS punishes the folks that came through the old system, we were trained, groomed and promoted for our expertise in our series the new system allows for experts to be moved/transferred at managements discretion. This is an unfair labor practice, as going into a new series automatically places the person in a training position meaning a high performance rating will not be forth coming for years. In the current pay system though employee is training in a new field at least that employee is compensated by cost of living raises until they become proficient in the new job they've been assigned to. Which brings me to the actual affect on my family on myself next year I will be at the end of step increases, unless I get cost of living or promoted which is highly unlikely, under the new NSPS I will never see performance ratings that will pay me what locality and cost of living doles out yearly. I would have to recieve at least a 5.6% yearly to equal what I would normally receive. In talking with folks currently under pay band that will never happen! We've also been told that the money that will be set aside really isn't available anyway! Everyone here at Tinker AFB is very upset about this but are afraid to send in comments. Please why are you removing everything that attracts people to government employment? The work place will become a war zone in where you have people taking notes on everything they do and everything others don't do it will be absolutely necessary in justify performance raises. My biggest concern is it will make it so much easier for people in power to give as many raises to whom ever they want, if will make it easier for supervisors to get rid of or reduce pay of people they don't want or like. There are no mechanisms in place to rate the fairness of the new system much judge the action taken by managers.