| Comment Number: | OL-10510587 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 10:38:01 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:
The name "National Security Personnel System" is a smokescreen. It suggests that national security is somehow increased by this system. The truth is that it is a disguised way of limiting employee rights and limiting pay. It has nothing to do with national security. 9901.342 says "The NSPS pay system will be a pay-for-performance system and ... will result in a distribution of available performance pay funds based upon ... ." The money available for paying for performance is limited by the "pay pool." The present system allows for rewarding performance. The problem with the present system would continue to be the problem with the NSPS system: bad managers would still be bad managers. They certainly have never been trained to manage people in a performance-based system. Under NSPS, an employee's pay would be totally based not on performance but on the "performance rating" which would be at the whim of the "manager." This would allow for the sort of favoritism and personal bias that is presently limited by the GS system.