| Comment Number: | OL-10510751 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 11:44:53 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:
I am in my 21st year of federal service; I am a 3rd generation civil servant with service in my family dating back to 1900. I joined DOD as a GS-3 working my way up to GS-11. I learned and worked hard and have been fortunate in progression. I happened to have the right supervisor at the moment for my hard work and ambition to pay off. I look around now and see the desperation of this agency to attract and maintain new workers. College students are taken in and given an opportunity. They are told – you don’t have to take leave when you stumble in two hours late, long lunch – that is ok, learn regulations and become familiar with right way of doing things – forget it. Oh, by the way, you have been here a year and it is time for a promotion, pay for your student loan – of course, don’t worry about that person that has struggled along making sure to do everything right- going to school at night – they will be passed over for a promotion so you can stay. In our upcoming new roles as guinea pigs we will continue to subjected to same inequalities that exist now except we will no longer be guaranteed that at least our cost of living increase in our salaries will be left to the unbiased opinion of Congress. How can the powers granted by Congress to overhaul the system not come back to oversee the new system. Why only DOD employees? All civilian employees are part of the National Security System, not just DOD employees. I realize there are only certain agencies authorized to make those changes and all are working on these changes, but why can’t these agencies come on line together instead of staggered increments. Also, in the tiers, why aren’t there phases such as the new retirement system vs. the old. Before the jump is made, slow down the implementation, tweak some of the problems up front rather than several years down the line when it will truly affect the worker and phase in more tiers.