| Comment Number: | OL-10508564 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 9:22:57 AM |
| 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:
Where to begin... This is a very bad instrument. All labor agreements ever made, are nullified at the stroke of a pen. Labor unions become useless bystanders. Undisclosed "offenses" are grounds for discipline or removal. Supervisors can demand any level of "gratuities", either as favors or unpaid (unreported) work, from subordinates, and supervision WILL, as a condition of the subordinate's continued employment. Favoritism will become rampant. The best of employees will flee in droves, because productive work can go unrecognized, or be credited to others, with no appeal possible. The broad powers that this "NSPS system" includes will attract only the worst of politically-oriented people; in a very short time, all capable people will seek other employment. This change to the personnel system will harm our government in the deepest ways, from the inside. I can not believe that the NSPS follows the will and intent of Congress, in establishing the Civil Service. Some minor changes to Civil Service may be needed, but NSPS is far too extreme.