| Comment Number: | OL-10511124 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 2:07:33 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:
I have many concerns about this system, but here are two primary ones. Military supervisors typically don't care about civilian subordinates, prefer to deal with military subordinates, and don't care to even learn about the current performance rating system. Civilians have to pry support out of them. Second concern: Each employee is in only one pay pool at a time. But, let's say there are two supervisors: one has two subordinates, and the other has ten subordinates. The first supervisor could very well rate his two people as 5-star. The second supervisor might be able to come up an equal number of 5-star people, maybe even more. But, if a pay pool demands a percentage of people rated 5-star, how that percentage gets translated down to a supervisor with few people could really skew the results so that true performance ratings are not shown. In the same pool, how do supervisors communicate one to the other? How do payout distributions get determined, and communicated to supervisory levels?