| Comment Number: | OL-10509999 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 11:18:25 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:
Good Ole Boys of America Unite! After careful review of the NSPS proposal, I have found it to be malevolent toward the American worker, anti-union, and un-American; yet, it is in favor of BIG business, pro-management, and authoritarianism. My reasons for this is as follows: 1. The change in classifications will group workers into an everyone can do anything group. This sort of thinking deletes specialty occupations and limits an employee in upgrades unless an aggressive training program is implimented. A training program is not offered in todays marketplace. A low level employee will normally remain in the same position for years. I say, train your employees to their highest possible goals. 2. Performance based pay allows for the possibility of heavy handed supervisors and managers to show favoritism toward favored subordinates while holding back employees who are actual superior performers. This type of pay is subjective on the part of the supervisor. The current system is subjective enough. Imagine if the employees were able to rate their supervisors! 3. The proposed RIF changes are terrible. This allows for the agency to remove seasoned workers based solely on favoritism. For instance, if I am a 54 year old with 29 years service and a RIF comes along because of, lets say, financial distress on the part of the agency, I could be let go just short of retirement because my supervisor likes another employee more than me. Imagine the amount of money the government could save by putting the older cows out to pasture. 4. How can you have due process of adverse actions if the appeals process is limited to only the MSPB? This is already in place with reasonable time limits and appeals. With the removal of the FLRA, management is free to do as they wish without accountability, making coverups easier. 5. Labor relations are an intrigal part of labor. Without them we would be back in the early industrial age with child labor, sweat shops, and unsafe work areas and conditions. The NSPS is unmitigated union busting. How can a union steward represent an employee if they only have the right to only attend a formal discussion? How can a fair hearing be given if the National Security Labor Relations Board is comprised of persons appointed by the Secretary? They are undoubtably yes men/women in my eyes. I find the NSPS to be a black eye for the American Federal Civil Service worker. Some areas are streamlined but at the expense of our civil liberties. It is great if you are well liked. You can work less than your co-workers and excel by leaps and bounds. The currents system is flawed, but not as much as the NSPS.