| Comment Number: | OL-10510665 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 11:09:20 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:
It makes one wonder at cost the government has spent by creating a new personnel system for DOD employees, NSPS, when there was nothing wrong with the old system. The new system contrary to what it is suppose to accomplish will return the DOD personnel system back to the days of the,(quote),spoils system. Workers will be subject to favortism, nepatism, with the errosion of Union's accomplishments for the workers that have transpired over the past 100 years. The days of partnership and all the pluses of partnership put into effect under the Clinton Administration will be of the past. Numerous pay grades will be replaced with three bands, and more employees will reach the limits sooner due to the decreased bands, pay for performance will be a idle phrase and in reality high performers will reach their limits that much sooner and therefore reduce their will to succed and perform. Rights of all workers will be reduced and the whim of a supervisor will create tension between workers. I hope retraining on violence in the workplace is reenforced as DOD will become the Agencies of unhappy workers as many will no longer get raises and some will get ten percent reductions simply because they lost their rights and their supervisor dislikes them. The worst part is that in creating the system there was suppose to be input from the unions, in fact Congress specified that the process be collaborated with a manner that ensures the particatation of employee representatives in the development and implementation of the labor management system. DOD management created the new NSPS system without union or employee input. If done as Congress directed there might have been a new system that actually might have been better than the previous system. However this was not DOD's goal, their goal simply was to create a new system where management stripped the unions of their rights, and gives them a free hand. In the end the new system wants to make all civilian employees, similiar to the military, where you are given orders and you follow and go where directed. However many DoD employees are highly educated, well respected, workers who are not a simple asset of the agency and are not a deployable asset of the Agency but rather a hard woking emplyoee who has rights. Employee had rights, that are now being stripped away and lessened so as the Agency can do as it wants. When something is not broken you don't fix it. The current personnel system of the DoD took many years to arrive at its current look, it changed through the times and works. The system protects the rights of individual, and their unions, and accomplishes the goals of Government, the Department of Defense, and specific DOD agencies. There is no reason to change it!