| Comment Number: | OL-10506476 |
| Received: | 3/11/2005 4:02:25 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:
While I understand the Sec of Defense's conern about the people working for the Home Land Defense, I don't think it should be applied accross all of DoD. I have been a loyal employee for the government for 33 years and I have never knowingly did anything against the US government or would ever do it. I do not believe it is to the best interest of the US government to be able to depoly civil servant to any part of the world. Let people who have agreed to do that do that. Civil Servants do just as much for their governement here in the states. If I want to serve overseas, I will volunter. To cut all grade and step raises would only lead to no raises at all. Now the government has to find the money for raises because it is built into the step-grade system. With no structure there would be back sliding. Locality pay is necessary to allow people to live in high cost areas. To allow supervisors to promote with no checks and balances would let favoritism run rampped. Most supervisors are fair, but a lot are not. Now if they want to demote there is aprocess to do that. Likevise to promote thee is a process of several layers of checks and balances. What happen to the bargaining at local level. National level unioins would only loose the paperwork, especially if they have only 30 days to respond. When it comes to RIF the security of years-in-service and past annual appraisals helps keep good people in the system until retirement. I don't want to work 29 years and then have some young employee come in and take my job just because they work for less. Why is not the negative experience of other failed Pay for Performance management systems being considered that would have a positive effect by causing changes to the propsed NSPS? Why aren't supervisors being trained on this new system before it is implemented? Finally, I don't believe this window of 30 days is adequate to allow Federal Employees to become familiar enough with the proposals to respond in a total way. Nothing gets thru teh government channels in just 30 days. Bottom line, I don't feel safe anymore, I feel like I won't get paid enough to feed my family and/or offset the raises in the constant increase in the cost of simply living. Rules don't make a system bad. It's the lack of rules that can cuse a system to fail the employees. Is the Sec Of Defense even thinking of the people he is trying to manage?