Comment Number: OL-10508191
Received: 3/14/2005 8:29:00 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 am writing to express my concerns with the NSPS system that is proposed in the Federal Register on 14 Feb 2005. I am not a veteran, though I live with a Veteran. I have nearly 30 years of loyal, dedicated hard working for the benefit of my command and the members we serve. I can not believe these proposals would have gone through with so much animosity towards the Civilian Servant of today. Perhaps in Washington, the system presently in place does not work, but if Management were to execute the rules, as they should, there would not be such a need for such a drastic change. Our members do not routinely get a step increase unless they are performing up to the standards expected of them. The free ride was over a few years ago. Yet the prospect that management will have the right to judge and take money away from a worker with no recourse is absurd, it will not create the work force you state you desire. This system will recreate the situations in which workers are in conflict with each other not working as team players, it will bring back the TAIL HOOK type of environment as one another will be afraid to speak out about the wrongs being done as fear of not getting the deserved pay raise or yet getting a deduction or removal for doing the right thing. For years we have tried to make the Government a Harassment free environment yet this will take us back in time. In RIF situations, a member with longevity and loyal service could actually lose their job to a 30% Veteran just starting out in the system thereby losing the corporate knowledge that is so often being complained about as the Baby Boomers are in the Retirement years. Never mind the fact that this system is erasing the struggle our members before us fought for the rights of the Labor Laws give us. The mere thought that this administration is so bent on destroying the good of our Civilian Servants for the right to say who has the Power. These proposed rules do not fully explain or spell out how things will be working, though I am sure that is part of the plan, another way to slide things under the table, if they were up and up this would not be administered in this manner. This is a way to undermine the Civil Service and will ultimately hurt the ability of the agency to complete their mission. I feel this was not a well thought out project but a project to merely strip the worker of any say, bring back the “boys club”, drop the ceiling again, and support favoritism and unjust practices with no way to appeal and have a fair day in court. I would like to see this program reworked with the use of the Fair Labor Laws that are currently in place as opposed to tossing all the wind and starting back where our forefathers were. This is a slap in the face to every hard working, loyal Civil Servant in DOD. A shame it could not have been closer to what I believe congress wanted to be done. A chance for Favortism and the "boys club" to regain control and strength, and could potentially lose a lot of good employees due to personality issues and not performance issues Chris