| Comment Number: | OL-10510572 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 10:29:09 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:
Workforce Shaping -- Subpart F -- This measure moves performance ahead of service years in preference for retention during a RIF. This is an oversimplification of the value of an employee to their organization. A better system would be one that balances both past recent performance (perhaps the last 3-5 years) and is also weighted for length of service. The institutional knowledge, value, skills and training for an experienced employee should be considered in RIFs. This system appears to allow that an exceptional employee with excellent ratings for the past 12 years, but had one recent poor year would be released prior to a 3 year employee with 2 poor or average ratings but one good rating recently. This certainly does not encourage loyality, risk taking, and long term improvement but only develops a "what have you done lately" or a favoritism enviroment. This section should be reworked with a more balanced system and re-submitted for comment. As it is written it replaces a marginal system with a completely unfair one.