| Comment Number: | OL-10505575 |
| Received: | 3/10/2005 6:24:45 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:
I would prefer not to see the current GS system drastically overhauled overnight. In that sense I'm not comfortable with and would be opposed to the plan as written. One of the major objectives of the plan seems to be focused on pay for performance. While I agree with the concept, I do not want salaries take off by leaps and bounds at any one supervisor's sole discretion. A better way to address that topic is to maintain the current GS pay scale, but allow for a wider pay-band, and a more generous award account that can be used to reward high performers. The same goal can be achieved without disrupting the whole system. The QSI is another existing mechanism to reach the same results, but in a more orderly and discreet manner. Fuguratively, I do not wish to see a high performing Major or a Colonel in the Army financially outranking a General. It sounds like the proposed system could do that to their civilian counterparts.