| Comment Number: | OL-10507595 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 12:57:03 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:
My workload barely allows me to comment on specifics. Last year I was assigned GS-12 position responsiblilities for a retiree in addition to my GS-11 responsibilities of 6 years. I am still, however, working as a GS-11. The NSPS system is simply going to allow management more authority to enforce this 'more work for less pay principle'. Design and implementation have been rushed to avoid union and employee representation. The Pay banding system mocks civilian employees intellegence. Since our budget is continually being cut there will be nothing left to support the promised rewards. Hiring flexibilities mean making the system entirely flexible to management by eliminating employee rights. Performance managmement is another term for managing using the 'my way or the hiway principle' Currently the only employee engagement and appeal rights I have under the current systems labor relations would be to file a grievance against management. Where would that get an employee under the NSPS system... coerced, alienated, or fired? Training has already been eliminated the last two years for me due to budget shortfalls and I don't see it improving with a more top heavy authoritarian system. It all adds up to a decline in moral for me and the countless employees who see this transformation as going from being public servants to being the political servants of an impersonal personnel system.