| Comment Number: | OL-10507073 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 8:27:42 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:
We are using pay-banding in my Command already. There is no perfect solution to rating employees. The new system requires a lot of documentation and the owness is on the employee to defend and prove their case. That is okay. My concern is that in this Command, we are capped at the old GS-13 level. The old GS12s and the GS14s can each progress to the next pay levels - but because we are supposedly top heavy in the GS13 pay grade - we are being penalized and cannot go any farther up the pay scale. We can get a one time pay-out award for our performance for that year, but that does not help towards increasing our pay towards retirement. We older GS13 pay scale employees are being penalized. I have 30 plus years of experience BUT unless I change my series to a Computer Scientist (series 1550)- I am stuck in our current pay cap. I am a series 2210 and there are not enough hours in the day for me to go back to school and get the needed requirements to change my series before I retire. I only have about 5 years left to work. I would take me twice that long on a part time basis to get a degree and then it would be too late. The rule is fair enough to the new employees but where is the protection for us older workers - this rule should have at least been grandfathered because now we series 2210 GS13 pay employees are being penalized because there is a change in management concept to hire only 1550's. They are hired making more money and can go up the chain as far as they want for pay banding - guess who trains them for their new position - the older 2210's. Where is the fairness and when does experience have any impact on the performance. This rule should have at least been grandfathered to protect us older employees who are borderline ready to retire but continue to out perform the new employees.