| Comment Number: | OL-10511529 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 3:54:40 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:
Lessons Learned demonstrate how a rush to implement incompletely thought out programs can and does result in unmitigated problems, and in some cases outright disasters, that would have been avoided had the new program been more carefully considered and, if implemented, done so in a conservatively measured, incremental manner. Many of the submitted comments referring to specific sections of the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) expose "loose ends" in the proposed NSPS. These proposed changes in workplace policies and rules will leave employees vulnerable to all sorts of injustices, some without any means of substantive recourse. History has recorded how mistreated and disgruntled employees can wreak havoc in an organization. Due to these and other apparent problems with the present draft of NSPS, a comprehensive review that includes careful consideration of each of these comments needs to be undertaken prior to an attempt at implementing this proposed system. Comments with issues having merit need to be addressed and the proposed NSPS needs to be revised, rather than putting it in place "as is" and then dealing with the aftermath. Creating more problems to be solved is not in our best interest. If the valid issues addressed in these NSPS comments are not acted on, our Department of Defense will encounter obstacles in its mission that can otherwise be avoided. Lessons Learned demonstrate that deliberation pays dividends. Jerry Mershon Pearl Harbor NSY & IMF employee