| Comment Number: | OL-10509124 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 1:05:49 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:
NSPS eliminates Veterans Preference for RIF Veterans are still retained over employees without Veterans preferencein RIF. I like this, and I am not a Veteran. I do not like the NSPS new regulations where a new hired last year, the one that looks good on paper, but has no history with the agency. The one that left the military for the civil service job, or the one who hired under the flexibilities and was given the highest possible rating ( only one rating) will go ahead of me on the retention list, and he will stay and I will be RIFed. DOD is not being fair. NSPS says no job will be eliminated. In fact under NSPS there may be more opportunities for civilians and military positions are converted to civilian. The truth is NSPS by itself does not direct there will be layoffs. The reality will more likely be that an employee become dissatisfied with their pay, and the ability to have some input on their day to day workin conditions and the lack of due process in contesting the actions they may leave civil service. The impact DOD will be the loss of the institutional knowledge which is uniquely carried by the civil service workforce. The intimate and historical knowledge of the industrial complex of the physical operation, and frankly the administrative operation of the DOD facilities will be lost. Remember it is the civil service component that is the continuous line in the operation of DOD facilities, not the military component which comes and goes on a rotational basis and the contractor and their employees since there is no assurance that contracted out work will remain with that same contractor. As the workforce is reshaped throught his poorly thought out arbtarry and capricious set of rules, the stewards of good government-that is the current civil service workforce-will be removed as the eyes and ears of the taxpaying public, and the mouthpiece of waste, fraud, and abuse within DOD. No NSPS is not a good planning for our worforce or our country. TOTAL sum up-I do not want this NSPS implemented into our country or work place. "SIGNED" Gladys Waggerby CIV USAF