| Comment Number: | OL-10506202 |
| Received: | 3/11/2005 12:38:15 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:
TITLE XI Subtitle B Sec. 1111. In order for the pay, compensation, and benefits for those who work for the United States Government be uniform and standardized, the system and the RULES which drive it should be UNIFORMLY STANDARDIZED and PROTECTED. To gain economies of scale under ONE HR management system, the following 9 recommendations from an IT Specialist employee are made: 1) REVOKE ALL civilian personnel systems currently in existence (Senate, House of Delegates, Federal Courts, DOJ, Pres/VP, USIA, NIH, DOS, DHS, SES, SOFA for foreign nationals, etc., i.e, ANYONE, EVERYONE whose pay comes from the FEDERAL GOVT) 2) Apply the rules/regulations of this new system to ALL who draw pay, benefits, compensation, RETIREMENT, annuities, health care, dental, etc., so that this ONE SYSTEM applies to EVERYONE who is/was employed by the federal government. 3) so that the rule makers WILL BE SUBJECT TO the system they create not fair for SES to be separate 4) so that those who fund the system WILL BE PAID FROM the system that is created not fair for SENATE to be separate 5) Make PUBLIC all details and decisions regarding all court cases brought under this new system, of anyone who files, so that FAIRNESS is ensured across the system 6) Ensure FOIA for all documents is guaranteed for authorized auditing of adherence to fairness and equity for pay and benefits 7) Ensure PRIVACY ACT is adhered to for protecting personally identifying information stored in the database(s) accessed and that Access Control Lists which do allow view for data elements such as SSN, birthdate, phone#, address are RIGIDLY controlled, and NOT PROVIDED TO PUBLIC or COMMERCIAL databases such as CHOICEPOINT for any reason, ever. 8) Ensure that FINELY GRANULAR ACCESS to view other data elements, such as place of employment, pay band, work phone#, work address, SECURITY clearance, job title, etc., is rigidly controlled and viewed as a security measure in the post 9-11 era. We do not have a firm grip of who the foreign nationals are who came to this country pre 9-11 staged as "sleepers" or where they work or what their mission is. For that matter, we do not know if they have compromised any US citizens. Storage of human capital information in any database should be viewed as requiring extra-ordinary precautions; FAILURE TO DO SO could be devastating SHOULD THE INFORMATION FALL INTO the wrong hands. UNITED WE STAND 9) Ensure that the IT infrastructure providing the access to the databases containing human capital information is current with latest technology for Information Assurance, and as technology advances, so does this infrastructure (virus protection, spyware protection, intrusion detection, and, for whatever new vulnerabilities appear on the horizon for the: platform, operating system, application, web browsers, and database software versions selected) REASONS: Consider how the federal civilian workforce augments the military community, provides continuity of operations, corporate knowledge, and expertise vital to the Command Mission Statement(s) on military bases, and provides the entire operation at non-military ones. Pay, compensation, and benefit re-structuring by the current Administration FOR JUST A SUBSET of the federal civilian workforce individuals and all who will follow, whilst those upper level managers making the rules and the elected body who pay for the new system DO NOT HAVE TO SUFFER the consequences for it IS NOT FAIR. Those who are above it all seem to forget the workforce's value facing daily threats; this is not only unseemly but unworthy of such a Great Nation upon those whose sacrifices were built. It would be better to dismantle the "workforce" entirely; admit they are no longer required, vs creating a "pay and benefit package" of yet another round of watered down offerings to those who took an oath to protect, honor, and defend.