| Comment Number: | OL-10510769 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 11:53:11 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:
Various government agencies have been testing performance pay systems for more than 20 years and invariably, the results have been that the majority of workers are often cheated when advancement, promotion and pay decisions are given over to the sole discretion of a supervisor. This process typically lowers salaries as well as morale. It is too autocratic and eliminates any redress for decisions made on the basis of considerations other than merit. If the NSPS is implemented, the long-term impact to the government is that it will be left with a less-competent workforce since the most highly qualified workers will not "put up" with the new system. They will simply quit and return to private industry. I STRONGLY and VEHEMENTLY oppose the implementation of NSPS, and I BEG SOMEONE to take STRONG ACTION to instruct the Secretary of Defense to halt any further development of NSPS unless and until the Pentagon is willing to substantively address the issues raised by the United DOD Workers Coalition. Supposedly the argument for the new system was that the old system had a few problems. Well, then ... the smarter thing to have done would have been to simply identify those few problems and FIX THEM ... not throw out the entire system and try to implement a new one that no one wants and isn't going to work !!!