| Comment Number: | OL-10511498 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 3:48:44 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:
Classification - Subpart B This area is very vague and superficial. To state that the current GS and FWS classification and qualifications system will be replaced by a new method of evaluating and classifying jobs does not provide any more information than to simply say "we're throwing the current system out and we don't know what we're going to replace it with, but we will replace it." That type of ambiguity throughout the document does not lend itself well to employee confidence with this portion or any other portion of this document and pending system. With implementation just a few months away (expected July) there should be something more definitive in this notification. Paypools and paypool administration are not sufficiently defined, the labor relations area is insufficient to ilicit buy-in by the employees being converted to NSPS and the evaluation of performance is so loosely defined that the goal to acheive "a high performance workforce" is undermined. Teamwork and mentorship will not flourish under this system as employees vie to undercut their co-workers and teammates to "win" their payraise and/or performance awards, and for those career-minded individuals, secure their future retirement benefits which are based on basic compensation. Additionally, in order to achieve affordability in this system, it will become necessary to sacrafice outstanding workers to achieve a reasonable civilian pay budget. Furthermore, this document, more in what it leaves out than what it includes, presents a system lacking in basic architecture that at this stage of the process should be more visable without imposing real or artificial constraints in design and percieved flaws in its integrity.