| Comment Number: | OL-10512025 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 8:03:08 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:
TThe Case for Action: The Federal personnel system is based on core principles but they all require the manager and the employee to do their jobs. This isn't and hasn't been happening in the last 65 plus years. High performers are rewarded with on the spot cash awards; step and grade increases. Low performers if considered this were and are never counseled, as they should’ve been. This is a definitely manager not doing their jobs. This could always avoid these so-called adversarial relationships between managers and labor. This would’ve and could always make your labor force totally effective. America is always trying to reinvent the wheel, pay attention it’s already been invented. DOD and OPM tried to manage its manager with sending everyone to TQM and TQL training, both of them were failures. Why? Because they were trying to reinvent the wheel according to someone’s philosophy that this will make your employees better. This is just like teaching the children to read with teaching phonics it doesn’t work. A leaner OPM and labor force is not going to give you the support structure you think your going to get. What you’re going to get are a labor force and OPM being forced to take on more than they physically and mentally should. This has already been proven with the retirement of a plethora of OPM personnel, which impeded those in the civilian workforce a delay on being able to retire until a class of new trainees could be up to speed to process them out. What is limiting opportunities for civilians is the current system of NO Budget to advance anyone and constant cutting of the budget to finance the war. Rewarding contractors yearly when they are not meeting the demands of the contract. Allowing contractors to resubmit for more money on a contract they bid on and now cannot perform it at the rate they set and agreed upon; ie: I’ve been waiting for over 3 years for my new NMCI computer which is contractually suppose to happen every 2 years. We are paying $250 per month lease for each desktop, which originally only cost $850 new from the manufacturer. There is so much “pork” in every contract that is drafted when the work is not being performed by civilian employees it makes you understand the commercial when it describes it as “the other white meat” Everything wrong in America did not happen on September 11. If communication amongst us functioned they way it should maybe it could’ve been avoided. This is not going to fix what is wrong with the way we do business in DOD. GSA having contracts with manufacturers that charge the government more for their product than another vendor who bought it from the manufacturer. Forcing employees to only deal with GSA contractor even if they charge more and punishing you for finding the same quality elsewhere cheaper. If everything with the Dept of Homeland Security is so savvy why are they too up in arms about NsPs? Congress and the President voted in passed a law in 1990 to take civilian DOD employees pay and make it equal to those in the secular work force. You owe me 15 years of back pay. You are going to NSPS regardless of the comments and everything else so could you pay me the 15 years of back pay first. Then set your pay bands if you must. Remember this, this action will not give you the privilege of hiring the best and most qualified because everyone who wants to work for the government already do except the new college graduates. Managers and employees need to go their jobs and perform them. You (DOD) as the employer need to give the personnel to do their jobs efficiently. Foremost, since you have decided to reinstitute the “good old boy system” why don’t you just say so!