Comment Number: OL-10510416
Received: 3/16/2005 9:30:03 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:

I can't believe that we have gone back 50 years to the good ole boy system of personnel management. I also note the first thing management wants to do is eliminate the collective barganing as to allow them to do as they please without having to include the employees interest in decisions that affect them. I have been in Civil Service for 30 years and have seen many abuses of employees, and how management can not follow their own rules without Unions to enforce the rules...now there are no rules and I can see the handwriting on the wall...kiss the supervisor's ass or die! I see how the government is working with the nation unions (the government has refused to cooperate with the Unions at all, they barely talk to them at all in the collaborative phase of the mandated Union talks...I can see how this is going to go too...Dictatators in a draconian system without Unions with any teeth to police management and their abuses will be unchecked. And elimination of third party binding arbitration can only be disasterous. The government will be the cop, prosocutor, judge, jury and appeals judge all rolled-up in one, with no oversight other than the fox sitting up at DoD that wrote this pice of crap document called NSPS. I can understand the need to simplify the hiring process, it does take too long! However, once again, left to their own devises, management will fill the ranks with friends and relatives, with or without the required quilifications...I see it now in how they manipulate the current process. Just imagine how bad it will get when there are no rules... I also can see where pay bands may be benificial for large metro areas where job compitition is stiff and it may be hard to attract employees into the government when management may only offer the first step of a paygrade, that may already be at a lower rate that prevails in the area. However, In MOST areas of the country, government pay and benefits are better than what is available in the private sector. Therefore there is a ready pool of workers trying to get a government job. In these areas (most of the country) management will be able to offer jobs at the BOTTOM of the payband and still attract employees... I can also see management using a stratagy of paying EVERYONE at the bottom of the payband forever and being able to buy more employees for less, at the expense of the employees. We will NEVER get a payraise if it is up to the local commands, as they will always have someplace else to spend our raises. (yea, I know the government would NEVER do that) . Basically, I see NO GOOD coming from NSPS, only bad for employees. PERIOD. WE DON'T WANT OR NEED NSPS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!