Comment Number: OL-10509956
Received: 3/15/2005 9:58:25 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:

I have great concern about the proposed National Security Personnel System. This new system certainly cannot be to our benefit. This is the beginning of DoD employees' demise. The NSPS will allow for favoritism with little recourse. I have yet to see a pay schedule/pay banding chart; I only hear about "proposals." There has been plenty of time to show on paper these banding schedules and how this new wonderful pay system will work in practice and not what is believed in theory! I have yet to hear how job titles are going to change, how performance appraisals are going to look and how and on what ratings will be based. Supposedly, all this will be completed within 18 months of implementation. I also hear that yearly cost of living increases will cease to exist with NSPS. Tell me, how would our elected and appointed officials feel about this system for their yearly increases? Why not have DoD employees decide the performance of these officials and whether or not they receive increases based on the job performance. The current system did not need updating. The current system allows employees a recourse to disagree. I do not appreciate the course of my future being decided without my knowledge, my opinion, and my consent. I am certainly not consenting to the information I have seen so far. I see no reason that this change could not be implemented as other changes have been implemented, with a "grandfather clause." Why not leave the current system in place and make these changes to those that enter the system from this time on. As employees leave the system, do not fill those positions. We live in a democracy where votes count. Why was this proposal not put to a vote by the people; the very people who elected officials that have agreed to this new system. Please realize that whomever is in office when this system is implemented will not get my vote in the next election. When someone can show me NSPS is better for the employee in actuality rather than in theory, then maybe I will reconsider my opinion.