| Comment Number: | OL-10507510 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 11:50:23 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:
I believe the proposed NSPS will undermine the Civil Service and hurt the mission of the DoD employees. It reverts back to pre-civil service. NSPS seeks retirement, high five vs high three.Losing money per year here if salary doesn't remain constant.The employees in Dod should contnue to receive the annual pay across-the board adjustment that other GS/FWS workers receive.The individual pay increases fro performance should include guaranteed perchentages in the regulations so that employees will understand the pay system and what their pay increases willbe depending on their performance. In order to insure fairness and accuracy, DoD employees should be able to appeal any performance rating to an independent grievance and arbitration process like they do now. DoD should not change the current layoff/RIF rules which give balanced credit to performance and the employees valuable years of committed service. Due process and fairness demand that the independent body reviewing a mojor suspension as termination be allowed to alter the proposed penalty if they deem it ot be unreasonable. The current standards approved by the courts to guide such bodies should continue to be used. The labor management law that has governed the employees' right to organize and engage to collective bargaining has worked wll sence 1978. There is no complelling reason to take away most of the collective bargaining rights or grievance rights. Dod should not create a 'company dominated dispute board.' Any dispute board must be ;jointly selected; by managment and union. Being deployed at will is not accepatble. This seems to me to be an easy way to get rid of employees the superviors have no other reason to fire.