| Comment Number: | OL-10507132 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 9:03:28 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 9901.341-342 – Performance payouts –The NSPS pay system will be a pay-for-performance system, based upon individual performance, individual contribution, organizational performance, or a combination of these. NSPS will use pay pools to manage, control, and distribute performance-based pay increases and bonuses. DoD will decide which parts of the organization and which jobs will be combined into each pay pool. DoD will also decide what percentage of payroll will go into each pay pool. Money for performance-based pay will come out of the existing payroll costs for such things as within-grade increases, quality step increases, promotions, etc. DoD is not putting more money into the system so performance pay will not be over and above current payrolls. Some employees can get more than under the GS system but only if some of their fellow employees get less. This situation may be tolerated in some organizations, but in others, this will cause chaos, lower morale, less team work, and possibly contribute to violence in the workplace.