| Comment Number: | OL-10509731 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 5:26:37 PM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
| No Attachments |
Comments:
1- Rating and Performance: This has been a major problem for years, because DOD is not fully able to fund this program, and the NSPS Board said, "There will be no new money." So how is the NSPS going to fix this problem, other than the NSPS Board is going to take away the power of the employee's to grieve their rating. DOD has to understand you only get the best, when you fully reward your employee's, and not say you will, when you know the reward system is under funded. 2- Vetrans Rights: The only rights the disable vetrans will have is if they have high performance, and only within the Vetran's pay-band. I would like to remind the NSPS Board the Federal jogs were created for the men and women who serived in the military during time of War or in Police Action, and now you want to take this right away from the very same men and women who are fighting and dieing in the Middle East! Does the NSPS Board know how many nem and women who have been severely wounded, and are now Disable Vetran's? Does the NSPS Board understand how many nem and women have died, and their spouse is intiled to the same Disable Vetran's prefrance? I do not believe the NSPS Board have any right to take Vetran's prefrance away form Federal employee's, when our contry is asking our young Troops to pay the price they are paying. I believe the Secretary of Defense is taking liberties that he has no right in taking away from the men and women who have served their country and have become disable. I do hope the members of the NSPS Board will protect these rights, and leave them as they are today. 3- Union's Rights: As a member of our local union, I believe the union has been fair to management, considering the many thing they have pulled on the employee's, because they want one of their pet peas permoted. On our facility management can't even get the pass or fail right, so I know the NSPS will be a dream come true for every manager within DOD. The "Good Ol Boy" system will develop like wild fire, and their will be no one to stop it. The "Good Ol Boy" system is a live and well at this facility, even to the Commander says it's not, most employee's konws it's a live, because we have lived with it for the past fourty years. This country was build on union labor, and the ships, planes, and vehicles today are built by union labor. The privet sector knows more secrets than Federal employee's do, but I don't see the Secretary of Defense banding the privet sector from having union labor, and the reason is most if not all workers would go on strike. The Civil Service Act of 1978 was passed to portect the Federal worker from being used, abused, and reprisrl from Federal management throughout DOD. This is the Check and balance the Seccretart of Defense whants to take away from Federal employees, thus allowing the civilain work force to be treat like military. I hope the NSPS Board is not going to allow one person to have that much control in the future. Every four years the Federal employee's could have a new Secretary of Defense, the present Secretay of Defense wants to change everything, the next Secretary of Defense may be wors the the one we have today. I hope the NSPS Board is not will to gamble with the futrue Federal employee's.