| Comment Number: | OL-10510843 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 12:23:51 PM |
| 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:
Second Half of My Comments. First I do not appreciate NSPS computer system altering in any form, my written communication by taking out all puctuation to NSPS. This cooment system degrades the meaning and value of my comments. I am a career Defense Department GS-13 employee and the second portion of NSPS (written in very technical, legislative language) hides the true intent of NSPS. NSPS changes A GS employee's fundamental rights to grieve or appeal unfair decisions and adverse actions, to bargain over working conditions and basic conditions of employment, and other fundamental workplace rights. Under our current system, changes in personnel policies and working conditions must be negotiated with the union, including such things as: - Work schedules (part-time, flexi-tour, floating 40, etc.) - Leave scheduling - Overtime, comp time, credit hours procedures - Performance ratings and awards - Promotions - Reorganizations / realignments - RIFs, contracting out, BRAC, transfer of function (TOF), etc. If the DoD's draft NSPS proposal goes into effect, management could make the following changes at its own discretion: - No part-time or flexible work schedules - Leave granted solely at management's discretion (i.e., uniformly arranged and pre-planned vacation schedules) - No overtime, comp time or credit hours - No fair and uniform policies to appeal changes made to overtime, comp time or credit hours - Performance ratings and awards assigned without appeal rights, or not assigned at all - Promotions assigned without fair competition or appeal rights - Reorganizations / realignments implemented without employee / union input, fairness, or appeal rights - RIFs, contracting out, BRAC, transfer of function implemented without veterans' preference, employee / union input or fair appeal rights *The current DoD NSPS proposal provides virtually no independent 3rd party appeal rights for employees impacted by unfair decisions and actions. I think that NSPS must start from scratch. It takes virtually all priviledges that I have as a Government Service employee and gives me nothing in return. Quite frankly, a government service employee becomes a government slave that can have his or her pay threatened by a supervisor who has no clear understanding of the work that the GS employee is even doing or involved with. The fundamental logic behind building this type of Human Resource Management System (HRMS) is bad. It manages the entire HRMS so that supervisors can do whatever they want to do. Government Civilian's are already getting screwed by the military because military supervisors are hiring retiring military members into high-ranking GS-12, GS-13, GS-14, and GS-15 positions. Career GS employees who have worked hard in their career tracks are being pushed aside because Military supervisors are not grooming lower ranking civilians and making job opportuniteis know.. The job descriptions that military supervisors are writing include things like "must have Flight experience or operational background." When in reality there are no GS career tracks where that kind of experience can be gained. The military knows that because of their untaxable benefits that they must enter the Government Service career track at the higher end of the scale just to accomodate the current lifestyle that they enjoy under the military pay. I can demonstrate cases where military are being hired with no background, and being brought in at Senior Steps with short notice and short advertisements of positions and the GS-employee had hundreds of hours of training in that field. How does this tie into NSPS you ask. The military is already abusing and misusing the Goverment Civil Service Human Resource Management System to their advantage....including continued employment for their post-military career period. And the GS employees are unfairly managed by management Robert Dangredo 12 Tall Oaks Drive Troy IL 62294 6182292280 6185310122