| Comment Number: | OL-10512131 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 9:55:34 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:
1. Pay - no more automatic grade or step increases? I will “theoretically” be paid based on performance, as judged by who? Over what period of time? My current job causes me to frequently move between assignments and supervisors. How will I be able to demonstrate my talent when I get moved around. 2. What happens to the individuals who have supervisors who for what ever reason don’t want to fool with the administrative requirements to increase a individuals pay? 3. When I do perform well, as judged by a supervisor, and he/she does want to increase my pay, what happens if there isn’t any money to pay for increased salaries. Or, let us say all the money has been spent on other individuals. Does the pay increase just go by the way side? This smacks of the “good old boy system” The guy who can smoose with his supervisor will have name recognition with the boss where the guy who is down in the trenches working his rear end off, putting out 110% will never be seen. 4. Discipline - you can have your pay reduced by up to 10% (unless you are moved into the next lower pay band and then it could be reduced by more than 10%) with almost no real means to appeal. You can be fired just as easily. 5. My comments are not unfounded, reactionary or driven by dissatisfaction with my job. I have over 30-years of federal service. In this 30 plus years I have seen almost every side of human nature. The good and the bad. I feel that my comments are the voice of experience.