Comment Number: OL-10507601
Received: 3/14/2005 12:58:43 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'm saddened to say we have already spent too many dollars and will spend even more taxpayers' dollars to fix a system that someone said is broke! I would like to know what has improved at those agencies that have had the privilege of using the pay banding system for some years. Has their bottom line increased? No, they cannot make a profit. Have they hired better individuals? How would they compare? Have the majority of people kept their jobs since they were forced into a pay band? Let's check and see exactly what has happened to their paychecks since inception. Have their jobs really changed? I have many unanswered questions as to why the current TAPES system cannot fulfill the job requirements for the government agencies. http://www.usapa.army.mil/pdffiles/r690_400.pdf The problem that exists in government agencies is that people are not held accountable for their jobs--and supervisors are not held accountable to their employees--and the supervisory chain would not want to hold their people accountable if the finger was turned back to them to see if they, indeed, have been doing their job first--and it continues. So you see, changing a system using all the same criteria that people are supposed to use to be accountable now will not do anyone any good. Read the TAPES regulation. We are spending entirely too much money playing games here. If an employee (and that includes all levels) is not doing a good job, fix the problem or get rid of them using the means that we now have available. If they are doing an exceptional job, then reward them with whatever means are already available. I already experienced your wonderful pay banding and did not see any good out of it. The supervisors (if they are worthy of being in that position) tried to take care of their good employees. The supervisors who were not worthy of being called a supervisor did not care enough to help their good employees. No one held them accountable to take care of their good employees - why is that? Some big guru had the final say. They tried to deny two GS-13's an increase in their pay, but alas, they forgot to check whether that supervisor did his job throughout the year - and since the supervisor failed to work with those two employees, their grievance won them a paycheck. Was that supervisor denied his pay increase for not being a supervisor - NO! So tell me again that pay banding is the answer to people not doing their job. The supervisors had to work on their charts days in advance and go off-site to discuss all their employees' positions on the pay banding chart. This is incredible! Do you know how much more time was spent and is spent each year trying to divide up a pittance of dollars so no one is slighted? Get real and make people do the job they were hired to do with the system that is already in place. Many changes have already been made to adjust the money to attract good employees. If the working conditions are not worthy, no one will come here that is worthy either. What a waste of taxpayers' dollars. I was very sad to hear that pay banding is coming to everyone.