| Comment Number: | OL-10511467 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 3:39:50 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:
(pay) my supervisor will not be prepared and equipped to fairley and objetively rate my performance and will not be held accountable==what!more training!! when do we have time for more training, what with all the classes we are having to get acquisition certified, become familiar with the new wholesale logistics modernization program (WLMP) ethics, prevention of sexual harassment, threatcon, IT security, ect? Oh by the way, the work won't stop! Oh by the way,no monies have been allocated for this supposed traning. We were comprehensively "trained" on the TAPEs process and just look how well it reflects your worth! NSPS will do away with bargaining units and employes unions. True, the Union will not be eliminated, but management will no longer have to interact on the same scale as today. the major effects will be in the area of impact bargaining on changes to working conditions and loss of independent 3rd party review for grievances and adverse actions. Also, by adding personal conduct to performance ratings, the dept is hoping to take the wind out of union officals who take aggressive action against agencies when employee rights are violated. Under NSPS, DOD civilians can be assigned anywhere in the world,even to a war zone,with little or no notice. If this were true, then why even address the matter in the proposed regulation at all.Anything not modified bty this chapter would remain as is in thew current law. There are currentlylimitations as to who can be deployed and the agency would have to bargain with the Unions if agencies began adding to the conditions of employment. I will lose my job security and there will be layoffs. I agree,NSPS will not eliminate jobs. It will speed up the ability to eliminate jobs. Under the proposed management rights,management has the right to make determinations in the matter of, among other things, contracting out.Couple that with the less intrusive RIF capabilities that agencies will have and it becomes apparent that transitioning jobs from the goverment to the private sector become much easier. I don't feel comforted by this though.