| Comment Number: | OL-10511785 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 5:20:37 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:
It seems to me and many of my co-workers that this new pay system is only going to foster favoritism and prejudice during the yearly review process. I am not lashing out at any particular supervisor or manager, but rather pointing out that favoritism is human nature. Having said that favoritism is human nature is neither ethical nor fair, but will be a result of this new pay system. I am a proponent of a system that promotes the best qualified individual, but not one that promotes someone based on t management’s view of this person. When it comes to a RIF the most popular employee retained while the most qualified person is let go. I do not see how this could be considered ethical. One of the advantages of federal employment has always been the due process when an employee has a less than favorable rating, it seems under this new system that this due process is going to be done away with and replaced with only managements decision. Again I ask is this ethical? I would say no! The facts as I hear them (which have not been made public) employees who are in a position where they "slide" up a grade each year (based on performance), might get the shaft. I feel this because what will there rating are compared to, a senior employee or fellow journeymen. In a situation where the favorite employee gets the exceptionally rating will the rest of the employees receive nothing. This information has not been disclosed; so therefore employees are concerned that the only raise we will received will be the cost of living increase. There might be more information related to these issues, that I have not heard. It seems to me that all DOD employees should have received the benefits and risks related to this personnel system prior to its implementation. If this information had been disclosed to employees there would be less dissention among employees. Maybe, just maybe DOD employees feel this system is going to be more unethical than it really will be. Stated another way maybe it is not as gleam as DOD employees feel it is. Whether or not this new personnel system is as gleam as I feel it is (I am not looking forward to January 2006) does not seem to matter since my agency is going under it in January 2006.