| Comment Number: | OL-10507539 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 12:13:55 PM |
| 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 feel that NSPS will hurt government employees for the following reasons: 1. Cost of living increases will be eliminated. Instead, under NSPS this will be tied to performance, and the concept still has not been properly explained or even grasped by the writers of NSPS. 2. Under NSPS, Reduction in Force will be based on the same performance criteria which have not been properly explained. And if an employee receives a poor rating from a supervisor who is not impartial or objective, the employee would be laid off. Leaving this up to a supervisor would remove all protection to which government employees are curently entitled. 3. Under NSPS, raises and merit pay will be based on the same performance criteria which have not been properly explained. This is places our financial futures in the hands of supervisors and eliminates the step increases and cost of living increases which were guarenteed under the old system. 4. NSPS removes the union from representing employees in working conditions and ruling on discipline and complaints. 5. NSPS states that employees will have the opportunity to have high performance recognized. An employee will go farther if he or she is a favorite in an office of employees who are disliked by the supervisor, or by their supervisor, or by the pay pool manager. An employee may receive an award or pay increase, at the expense of her co-workers. 6. NSPS states that no jobs will be eliminated because of NSPS, and employees may have more opportunities as military positions are converted to civilian. While no jobs will be eliminated because of NSPS, it will be easier to let employees go when NSPS is in place. I am concerned that the emloyment opportunities will take the form of deployments to do the work that a military person may be doing now. Under NSPS our job descriptions could require employees to perform many different types of skills. An employee's experience base could mean being assigned to work in a deployed area. Management has the ability to reassign employees now, but this is normally done with volunteers- - people who’ve signed mobility agreements, or those who were hired into Emergency Essential positions. NSPS will give the authority to involuntarily assign employees, even if there are volunteers who want to go, or even if there are EE employees who could perform work there.