| Comment Number: | OL-10509787 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 6:14:00 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:
Submitted in response to parts of 9901.351-356, 9901.401-409, 9901.501-516, 9901.601-611, 9901.701-704, 9901.711-717, 9901.801-810, 9901.901-928: Below are the reasons and remedies that some selected leaders and managers currently think of their workforce prior to the implementation of NSPS. 1. There are numerous employees who currently do not have the skill level in the subject matter most required to meet the mission needs. To attempt to bring these employees up to the level of performance required would require significant retraining investment, in terms of dollars to be expended, time invested, as well as loss of productivity during the training period. All are close to retirement age, and there is no assurance of extended tenure once the training was concluded. 2. The agency needs fully qualified, trained employees to meet mission needs. Currently employees with required skills have to work overtime to compensate for workload not able to be performed by those less skilled employees. In addition to overtime funds being expended, the skills of current employees are becoming burned out/overstressed. After NSPS is implemented, the leaders and managers will get the green light to make all necessary changes to the workforce they deem fit, since all previous employee rights/protections are done away with under NSPS. As currently proposed/written, NSPS “WILL NOT” promote a performance culture in which the performance and contributions of the DoD civilian workforce are more fully recognized and rewarded based on how current leaders and managers think. The current system is working fine, so why implement NSPS…what’s really BROKE? DoD needs to rethink the complete process based on written rules of engagement from “CONGRESS” to insure all previous employee rights/protections will seriously be considered with complete involvement from all UNIONS!!!