| Comment Number: | OL-10510580 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 10:33:05 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:
Since we are going to a pay for performance plan, why aren’t we including the Congress and the Executive branches? After all, the citizens of the US pay them all. Why shouldn’t they be subject to the same ridiculous standard as the rest of the DOD workforce? A deficit is not an acceptable standard and they would all be rated “unacceptable” under the DOD’s NSPS guidelines, and they would all be fired. Shouldn’t they be held to the same, if not HIGHER standard? That being said, I will now address my main complaint with the new system. Under section 9901.332 Local Market Supplements, it states that, what used to be called “locality pay” will now be called a “local market adjustment” and it will not be paid across the board as it currently is. DoD may “provide different local market supplements for different career groups or for different occupations and/or paybands within the same career group in the same local market area.” Huh? The DOD can pay a different local adjustment in the same locality? Based on several vague factors that they have yet to name. What kind of sense does that make? I think there needs to be a lot more discussion and thorough review before DOD is allowed to implement this system. This system will have the opposite intended effect- it will actually DECREASE DOD performance by causing it’s employees to seek employment elsewhere in the private sector- maybe that is the REAL goal of DOD and the Bush administration.