| Comment Number: | OL-10510332 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 8:58:43 AM |
| 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:
Congratulations on your NSPS pay system. The US government has created a system that makes it legal to discriminate and be totally prejudicial against their own employees. It strips employees of any rights that they may now have, and it's not like we many to begin with, and gives us even less. The system gears itself so that management has all the power and labor means nothing at all. The system reminds of a dictatorship. You talk about respecting the individual, protecting the rights guaranteed by law, the commitment ot public service, to be flexible, understanable; and then you tell us that labor pretty much has no say in anything according to managment. You are saying one thing and doing another. This system indicates the fact that no matter how long we have worked for the federal government, we can be fired at any time for any reason. And now you tell us that seniority has no longer has significant meaning in a RIF either. You expect us to be loyal and dedicated to the mission, which we all are, expect us to give 100% all the time, which we all do, and then management can turn around and tell us that none of that matters. Though we are loyal to you, you will not be loyal to us. The relegation of seniority to the bottom of the pile is a huge disappointment and a major problem. This new system gives management pretty much complete and totat control over their employees. And they can pretty much do with us whatever they like. That is a true form of discrimination, which this system seems to justify. (I thought slavery was against the law.) According to this system, we can be sent anywhere in the US or the world to work and if we don't want to go, we are fired. Surely, you don't expect us to uproot our families and move just because you said so. There's one problem right there. You see, we are civilian employees. With strong emphasis on the word "civilian". We are not in the military and we are not "property" of the US government as someone who is in the military is considered to be. Once a civilian joins the military, he/she signs away right that they have and are considered to be "property of the US government." It's a little different when you are a civilian employee working for the military, whether it be Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Coast Guard. We may work for the DOD, but we are not property of the United States government as they are.