| Comment Number: | OL-10510740 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 11:41:54 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 title NSPS seems to be a smoke screen for what the document covers, namely a new pay system. Under the current system, a nonfederal employee making $100,000 a year applying for a federal job could probably not be hired because his entry level position would be way below his current salary. The proposed system would change that, but will be sacrificing the long standing employee who may have taken a life time to achieve the same relative position at a salary that would probably be $20,000 less per year. With the current system, employees know what each other earns and are fine with it. The new system will have to lend itself to secrecy. The pay banding synopsis says that the system will "...reward high-performing employees...". Since the document divides the workers into three classes, i.e. Supervisors, Managers, and employees, guess who will be rewarded the most. Several places, the document basically states "...will be determined by the Secretary..". Depending on who the Secretary is, if an example needs to be made on spending cuts, sounds like the Secretary has a lot of power to determine what salaries will be. If Congress gives themselves a raise every year, let this system be tied to their raises. I don't believe this system will be an improvement for the dedicated, hard working federal employee, but will rather be an improvement for those who "appear" to be high-performing employees. If the system will be implemented, and no matter what I say or any of the other hundreds of commenters say, the system will be implemented no matter what, please consider along with the pay banding the frequency one gets paid. Consider paying twice a month, rather than every two weeks. Everyone gets a raise each pay period compared to what they get now, and you don't have to wait for the "extra" paycheck we get twice a year.