| Comment Number: | OL-10507404 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 10:48:24 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:
The pay for performance and pay banding provisions of NSPS are a bit difficult to evaluate at this time. However 2 areas of NSPS strike me as unfair. One is the work force shaping subpart F pg 14 which places workers evaluations over senority in RIF retention. This seems to me ready made for management to simply get rid of older employees as is often done in private industry. The second area is the MRO list which is not yet defined. I think such a policy is wrong for the same reasons that mandatory sentencing is wrong. It fails to allow local management to use discretion in evaluating the overall performance and behavior of an individual. This type of policy is what leads to 20 year prison sentences for stealing a bicycle. The fact that this MRO is not yet defined and totally up to the descretion of top management makes it all the worse. We are regularly asked to evaluate the local command working "climate" and this evaluation has always been judged good by employees. The use of things like an MRO would in my judgment be detrimental to the overall working "climate" in DoD.