| Comment Number: | OL-10506976 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 4:46:18 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 have twenty-three years of Federal Service and I have a very good understanding of personnel rules and regulations. I see no reason to implement a new pay system that has the potential to give my subordinates higher pay than myself. The current "inflexability" started in 1992 with budget cuts that effected the civilian workforce with hiring freezes, suspension of required training, arbitrary downgrades, elimination of performance and other incentive awards, the transfer of classification authority from trained classifiers to untrained directors, and the elimination of career program management for most series. Will NSPS suddenly increase our operating budgets to make us more flexible? Will this system give us authorizations to go with our requirements in manning documents? The existing laws are in place because of past abuse by politicians and unscrupulous managers. You have not proven to me that if we eliminate the current safeguards, abuse of employees will not return in a manner that existed prior to WWII. You may argue that we have new challenges to face that are different from WWII but abuse of employees, favoritism, croniism, hostile work environments, and unsafe work environments are the same in any period of history, unacceptable. Finally, if our political appointees cannot take the time to learn the current system, I suggest that following corporate America is, by current example, the wrong approach. While corporations are in the business of making a profit for stockholders, the US Government is in the business of not wasting taxpayer money. How much money has been spent on "fixing" a system that isn't broke but sadly neglected?