| Comment Number: | OL-10507130 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 9:03:06 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:
Sections 9901.331-334 – Local market supplements – For each band, DoD may establish local market supplements that apply to employees whose official duty station is located in the given area. There may be different local market supplements for different career groups or for different occupations and pay bands within the same career group. Locality pay would no longer be given equally to all employees in the same local area. Instead, DoD will decide which jobs should be paid more and which jobs it believes are already being paid higher than similar jobs in the same local labor market. These supplements would be reviewed by DoD at least annually and may be adjusted up or down. All employees rated acceptable or better, to whom the supplement applies, will receive any pay increase that might result from that adjustment. Local market supplements will be considered basic pay for most purposes. How will this make the civil service human resources system more clear and understandable? There can be multiple pay scales, even within one organization. Bookkeeping will be a nightmare.