| Comment Number: | OL-10506487 |
| Received: | 3/11/2005 4:16:06 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:
Throughout the document that term Periodic Rate Increase is used. The is the replacement of the cost of living increase. This periodic rate increase needs to be assigened a time for adjustment such as annual or bi-annual. The NSPS system, while rewarding top performers through the good-old-boy system, also neglects the independant thinker, who comes up with the origional ideas that may be out of the vision of their supervisor. Also by stripping the seniority element out of the pay system, there is little incentive to stay with the government long term. This can create overall cost increases as new employees without institutional knowledge must be trained. This is especially true in the scientific/technical fields, where the private companies have paid better than the compariable grades and steps could for the last 30 years! The governments hold on employees is the job security, stripping seniority from the pay structure may cause top performers to leave the governemnt.