| Comment Number: | OL-10512230 |
| Received: | 3/17/2005 12:03:04 AM |
| 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:
One of the premises of NSPS is that it will facilitate hiring and promoting a younger workforce; the "best and brightest" of a new generation of workers. Another premise is that no more than 15 percent an agency's workforce can receive pay increases in a single year. It seems that DOD and OPM have devised a quasi-legal system whereby the federal government intends to systematically practice age discrimination based on longevity. Personnel to receive raises will probably be determined by senior managers. Raises will presumably be given to the maximum number (about 1 in 7) of employees, first managers, then relatives and friends of other managers (if the expect the same courtesy). Then managers will tell long-time workers they wish they could give them raises, but their hands are tied. I've worked for DOD 13 years out of nearly 30 years in the workforce. I had heard about deadbeat Government workers and frankly I was surprised to see how much most of the people care about their work; many of us care passionately. It is my perception that perhaps 1 out of 7 don't deserve raises beyond a cost of living increase, but everyone deserves at least a cost of living increase. Without at least receiving cost of living adjustments, thousands of good, hard working people will watch their checks melt away year after year without raises unless our legislators wake up and realize that the "best and brightest" are leaving if they are not prohibitively close to retirement.