| Comment Number: | OL-10505815 |
| Received: | 3/11/2005 8:37:59 AM |
| 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'm writing to express my concern that the NSPS will not be an effective system. DoD employees work for an organization (the Federal Government) that does not have the profit motive to improve organizational efficiency and productivity like private companies because Federal Employees carry out the will of the taxpayer public through public laws enacted by Congress. Therefore, the NSPS system will unfairly give managers the ability to subjectively give bonuses or poor performance evaluations in an environment where the bottom line is not profit but rather performing the Government's mission. The current civil service system has all the correct safeguards and inventives to motive and retain the workforce. If managers use and enforce the arsenal of options available to them under the current system, there would be no need to reinvent the wheel. The NSPS has appeared flawed from the beginning. When Mary Lacey stopped here on her road show in 2004, there were more ambiguities and questions that she could not answer than the information that was provided. Essentially, nobody knew what the new system would be like, including her. The answer: -I don't know-, was a common refrain. Since then, us Federal employees have not learned anything new. The NSPS is an ill-conceived, half-baked plan that even now does not fully safeguard the rights of Federal employees as addressed in others' comments. IF this system is put in place, it should only affect new Federal hires and allow current career employees be -grandfathered- into the current civil service system. I have expressed these opinions to my congressman and senators. Thank you for your consideration and the opportunity to comment in this forum too.