| Comment Number: | OL-10507645 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 1:37:32 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 tried to put my comments on several times on 10 and 11 March 2005 but I kept receiving an error page. The comment period should be extended for that down time..... I am a veteran who served honorably active duty in the US Air Force for five years. I got out of the military so that I could get a logistically stable job in Arizona. I did not wish to move or deploy any further so I got out of the military. I wanted to continue to serve my country and applied for an aircraft machinist job at Luke AFB and I was hired in August 1985. My civil service civilian job requirements did not have any provisions that would require me to be deployed and those were the conditions that I accepted and have committed over twenty years of my life towards. I am against the NSPS as a whole; I feel that if the new system is implemented in any manner the current employees should be grandfathered in with the old system. There is no reason that this can not happen, let the newly hired personnel come in with these outrageous rules, I believe the quality of personnel will be reduced because of the NSPS..... I have vested many years into the previous civil service system and I do not want those conditions to change to create an environment in which I will be treated like a military member or as called in the NSPS, a “deployable asset”. When I was military I accepted those conditions, just as I was deployed to a remote cite in Iceland during the Cold War and was on call 24 hours a day and working twelve hour shifts. I am currently 45 years old with arthritis and cannot do those types of duties any longer..... Subpart B -- I have worked with many different military supervisors over my twenty years of civil service and I know for a fact that personal feelings control how awards and promotions have been distributed. Supervisors have favored certain employees for their social skills and not by their actual working skills; with the NSPS Pay Band system this will create an adverse work environment for many employees that are excellent workers but are not liked by the supervisors. The NSPS can cause employees to have the chance of not even receiving a cost of living increase because a supervisor does not like the person; it is a undisputed fact that the cost of living has gone up every year..... The DOD offers the proposed regulations that were published on the federal register on 14 Feb 2005, however these regulations are not complete and make references to areas that will have the ability to change and this is not fair for the American public to make any constructive comments. The DOD can later make outrageous changes that will be able to go without public comment. At a minimum any changes to the DOD civilian personnel system that are not complete and listed on the federal register should be excluded and not changed..... At the beginning of the regulation it states: “These proposed regulations would not result in the expenditure by State, local, or tribal governments of more than $100 million annually.” Currently the USA is fighting wars on several fronts with a couple more potential. The USA should not be spending the taxpayer’s money foolishly to change a personnel system for political reasons. Management always had the right to hire and fire who ever it wishes and assign work; there is no true reason to change the civilian personnel system. The DOD should use all of its fiscal resources to fight the war on terror and properly equip our troop, not waste monies changing a system that was not broke.... There is not enough space to put all of my comments, I will submit others in another page. I want to make sure they are accepted..... This NSPS is an insult to my 25 years of government service, if I had less years I would quit.