| Comment Number: | OL-10508854 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 11:10:38 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:
Pay Bands - I am a unit administrator for the United States Army Reserve and have been a civil service employee for 30+ years. We have been trying for over 20 years to get the job upgraded and/or job description changed. The unit administrators have always been dumped on and get very little compensation of any kind for what they have to do. I doubt very much if the changes you are comtemplating will make it better. I would say by reading the proposals it would only be worse. Performance management for the good unit administrators without the labor management aspect would be unheard of. We are very rarely awarded for good performance. I can understand where good employees become bad employees due to the job we are required to do and what we have to do the job with. Training is almost unheard of and what there is is not what the unit administrators need to do the job. The unit administrators at the Reserve Unit level are never asked for their input in any changes being made to policies or programs that will affect the handling of Reserve soldiers. These are most times made by personnel who have never been at the unit level. There are award programs but the good old boy system is still in place where this is utilized for the most part. Good employees many times have supervisors who can't be bothered to do their evaluations say nothing about putting them in for awards. There is very little support for the unit administrators at any level, I only see the changes making their job more miserable than it already is. If anyone looked at the number of these positions unfilled nation wide they would see that as soon as someone finds out what is required of them and what they are paid and how they are treated they don't take the jobs and/or if they do they don't stay in them very long. Changing the rules and regulations from what I see is not going to change this only make it worse.