| Comment Number: | OL-10507158 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 9:11:07 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:
Section 9901.409 – Challenging a rating – A rating of record may be challenged only through a reconsideration procedure that DoD will establish. A payout determination will not be subject to reconsideration. In other words, there will be an internal process, not a negotiated grievance process, to challenge a performance appraisal rating. And there will be no process, not even an internal one, for challenging a performance payout. While NSPS will make the rating far more important than it is now, it will take away the right that bargaining unit employees currently have to appeal that rating to an outside arbitrator. And, although supervisors will impact employees’ pay both by the rating they assign and the number of shares they choose to give, there will be no accountability and no redress for those decisions.