| Comment Number: | OL-10505178 |
| Received: | 3/10/2005 4:01:49 PM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
| No Attachments |
Comments:
It is my belief that the NSPS is a veiled way to make the non-patrician Civil Service System obsolete and replace it with a politically motivated personnel system. What this will eventually do is remove the protections the civil service system provides to the tax payer (read the people). The NSPS will become a politicized system that rewards cronies with pay (read performance awards) and forces honest government employees to remain quite or risk loss of pay and honest performance awards. This is sinister. When political ambitions, big business and government work together it spells tyranny. Civil Service was designed to prevent this from happening. This country will become a third world nation. When the current political party leaves or is no longer in favor, in the work place, government workers of the wrong political persuasion will be denied awards (read performance awards) that are a major part of worker pay under the new NSPS. The worker will be forced to comply with the new powers or live on reduced pay. Maybe the worker will even be inclined to leave government service altogether. Government workers with special skills are not readily available leaving the whole country at a much greater risk to face the terrorist’s threats. What the NSPS must not do is : 1. Link workers pay with awards. 2. Link organizational awards to workers pay 3. Reduce protection provided to the tax payer (read the people), a tenant of the civil service system 4. Base reduction in force on performance awards What the NSPS must do is: 1. Define performance awards as beyond what is required by the workers’ performance standard. 2. Prevent superiors from not providing performance awards as a means of retaliation or punishment against a worker. It is my belief that the NSPS is a veiled way to make the non-patrician Civil Service System obsolete and replace it with a politically motivated personnel system. What this will eventually do is remove the protections the civil service system provides to the tax payer (read the people). The NSPS will become a politicized system that rewards cronies with pay (read performance awards) and forces honest government employees to remain quite or risk loss of pay and honest performance awards. This is sinister. When political ambitions, big business and government work together it spells tyranny. Civil Service was designed to prevent this from happening. This country will become a third world nation. When the current political party leaves or is no longer in favor, in the work place, government workers of the wrong political persuasion will be denied awards (read performance awards) that are a major part of worker pay under the new NSPS. The worker will be forced to comply with the new powers or live on reduced pay. Maybe the worker will even be inclined to leave government service altogether. Government workers with special skills are not readily available leaving the whole country at a much greater risk to face the terrorist’s threats. What the NSPS must not do is : 1. Link workers pay with awards. 2. Link organizational awards to workers pay. 3. Reduce protection provided to the tax payer (read the people), a tenant of the civil service system. 4. Base reduction in force on performance awards. 5. Base retierment benifets on performance awards. What the NSPS must do is: 1. Define performance awards as beyond what is required by the workers’ performance standard. 2. Prevent superiors from not providing performance awards as a means of retaliation or punishment against a worker.