| Comment Number: | OL-10509106 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 12:57:19 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:
Listed below are some of my concerns: a. There are no assurances of future COLA increases or locality pay. b. Employees may be assigned elsewhere in the world. c. Will payroll banding really encourage teamwork when workers are competing with each other for the increases? d. Will the DoD continue to fund at consistent levels? Employees receiving pay increases in poorly funded years will continue to lag behind co-workers who were given increases in better funded years. e. If only 10% of the workforce can receive an increase in any given year and an office has several outstanding performers, then in an office of 10, only one person a year will receive an increase when possibly four or five deserve increases. (a good example of why teamwork will not be encouraged by this program) f. I worked in the private sector for many years. Pay increases were given every year at each place I worked. Some employees did, however, receive higher increases than others. Under the current NSPS proposal, many would seldom or never receive increases. If morale is bad now, what will it become under the new system? g. We are told that NSPS will allow greater flexibility in hiring. When young people find they are competing with other individuals for pay increases and may not receive anything if others get the increases, what incentive is there for new hires to stay? They can go to work in the private sector and feel reasonably sure they will get annual pay increases. h. My last comments suggests there will age discrimination if NSPS is implemented. If there is a great deal of pressure to bring in college graduates and keep them, then it's obvious the "aging" workforce will sacrifice pay increases in favor of new hires. i. How can we feel confident about a program when our questions cannot be answered? Whenever we have been briefed on NSPS, most of the questions are answered with "I don't know." or "That has not yet been determined.".