| Comment Number: | OL-10508069 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 5:26:04 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:
In your Myths and Facts document, you state, 'The annual January pay increase, as we know it now, will change. The proposed pay rules provide for periodic 'rate range' adjustments, to adjust the minimum and/or maximum rate of a pay band. When a minimum rate of a pay band is adjusted upward, employees will receive an equivalent increase. There are no 'steps,' similar to the GS system, in a pay banding system. Instead, pay increases and/or performance bonuses are based primarily on your performance rating. Unacceptable performers are not eligible for pay increases under the proposed system.' The Department of Defense currently has not demonstrated a truly fair and effective performance rating system. Add to that the fact that now personal conduct, a purely subjective measurement, will be added to your performance indicators and you have a system that is doomed to fail. Its success will be in the fact that the ratings will not be subject to a negotiated grievance process and that the pay out cannot be challenged at all.