| Comment Number: | OL-10509884 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 8:26:49 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:
Section 9901.373, Conversion of Employees to the NSPS pay system, paragraph (c). This says that if an employee is scheduled to receive a step increase due to time in step and it happens on or before the conversion date, he/she will receive the step increase then converted. But if the step increase is due to "kick in' the day after the converstion, the employee does not receive the step increase. Since it is one, two, or three years between steps, this is unfair to the employee who was near the magical date. Right from the start, we have just pissed off an employee and he/she will start this new system with a bad taste in their mouth - making it much harder for management to earn their support for the new NSPS program. Recommend a scaling criteria on conversion. Something like: If employee is in steps 1 through 3 and whose date is within 30 days of the command's conversion, then he/she will receive the step increase. For steps 4 through 6 and the date is within 60 days of the command, then he/she wil receive the step increase. For steps 7 through 9, have a 90 day window. BTW - I support the pay for performance system to get these types of raises vice purely a time in grade process. But we should be fair and resonable during the conversion process. Thank you.