| Comment Number: | OL-10507210 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 9:26:55 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:
Pay Banding: a good idea; a way to reward and encourage excellence, ethical behavior, creativity and fortitude. Will it succeed? NAF pay banding has not been a resounding success. Why? For the same reason AF pay banding will fail: favoritism, sloth and guile - in varying proportions. However, I am not pessimistic. I am realistic. And any realist will tell you - there is always a solution (we just have to be sure we do not under-estimate the wit of the ignorant.) Solution: require that all pay-banding recommendations be made by a multi-disciplinary panel (much as job candidates are selected) and have the recommendation reviewed by a higher authority, if the recommendation is for a VERY big jump in the pay band.