Comment Number: OL-10509095
Received: 3/15/2005 12:48:15 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 know this comment will be dismissed as anxiety or something a long those lines; however, NSPS is just anpther way to shift responsiblity from management as agents of the agencies. Title 5 had requirements that management had to perform as a way to protect employees from abuses. OPM over the years has been relaxing those requirements because management has been failing to do the jobs they are paid to do yet shifting all accountability to the employee who is already at a severe disadvantage. Favoritism which is alive & well under the present sytem can now flurish with out being checked and loyalty to the agaency or Government for that matter will be replaced by those for find favor with their boss. In a perfect world NSPS would be good but this world is not perfect. I received awards for doing work the last year but it is not reflected in my appraisal. The performance system has not worked for years because agencies fail to comply with title 5 but not employees must have their entire pay based on a faulty system. This is not progressive this is recessive where employees have few rights and the employer can do as they so desire. Comments were asked for on NSPS without anything describing how it will work and we are asked to believe it will be fair. Fair? Check DFAS "GET WELL" plan (1996) and tell me who was it fair for, certainly not the people who were qualified. Over 60% of grievances filed are over performance evaluations and you say this is fair. My very first question was on that very same issue and the only response I got was "training would be given." Training had been given before and things never got any better but that shouldn't bother anyone. Since NSPS considers employees as "Deployable units" we are no longer human beings but pieces of equipment, assets which are as desposable paper towels. Perhaps if this was to really be a fair system more rights would be given to unions and employees rather than taking them away. Pay has not been equal to the private sector because money/funding was never given to make it so. The ease of hiring or firing is not the fault of anyone accept management but instead of shouldering that, blame the system. Agencies and DoD need to accept their own accountability for faults such as the length of time it takes to do a grievance, most delays are because of management, not the unions or employees. I can support any statement I made here and while I know this comment will be dismissed I defy DoD to support the positive points thrown at us by NSPS unless it is to be just as I said a system where favoritism flourishes.