| Comment Number: | OL-10505847 |
| Received: | 3/11/2005 9:09:03 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:
NSPS is a wolf in sheep's clothing. The word SECURITY seems stategically placed in the name to appeal to the nation's raw emotions following 9-11 and fears of terrorism. Repealing employee rights and job securities in the name of unilateral management authority does nothing to make our nation more secure. Pay for performance: One of the reasons touted for implementing a pay for performance system is that Government managers fail to make distinctions between good and poor performers. NSPS does not provide Government managers with better performance evaluation tools. Without making our managers better or giving them better tools, pay-for-performance opens doors to favoritism, discrimination, and other non-merit considerations. As a DoD HR professional with 20+ years of experience, I find NSPS to be a giant step back to the dark ages. The stated goals are wonderful and are most likely what sold Congress on passing legislation but the methods described won't bring about any of the stated goals. NSPS states a desire to recreate the civilian DoD as a high-performance, quality based employer of choice but it proposes to do this by giving managers too much power, employees too few rights, and abandoning long-standing merit-based principles. It's sophisticated bait and switch and it's frightening.