| Comment Number: | OL-10510754 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 11:47:22 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:
Staffing and Employement Subpart E According to NSPS, people will be hired in as career employees. This will create all kinds of problems in RIF, as people who have many years of service will be competing with someone who has one year. and I have already seen enough of how the managment thinks the new 22 yr old interns are darlings. There would still be a probationary period, but it is rarely used for its intended purpose anyway. The agencies have people who have worked on their degrees and finished their education, but the intern opportunities are never opened up to current employees. There should be more internal hiring, not less, if the federal government wants to reduce the amount of its workforce. Otherwisde, all management is saying is that people who worked and earned their degree non-traditionally are not worth as much consideration as the 22 year olds who went straight through college. This is not true. There may be many reasons why people took longer to finish their educations, and finances is one of them. To only hire 22 year old college grads as interns is to create a class of haves and have nots. The have nots did not come from families or circumstances that would allow a person to go straight through college. This will also provide managers with the further opportunity to hire their friends and relatives at higher positions and directly as career employees. All jobs will be comeptitive with the public. How does this further reduce the government rolls? It doesn't. The exact opposite ought to be applied here: more people should be hired from within. There are a lot of good hardworking people out there that managers just want to overlook. And mostly those managers who want to overlook those people within the organization who could contribute more already have a mindset that these people aren't worthy. It is this mindset that needs to change, and more opportunities ought to be given to the current workforce.