| Comment Number: | OL-1900000 |
| Received: | 2/14/2005 9:19:30 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:
There seems to be an awful lot of optimism for NSPS amongst senior management in DoD. It appears that some executives believe that the rank-and-file employees are chomping @ the bit to have NSPS implemented. I am compelled to argue that is not the case. This goes beyond a simple apprehension regarding a new pay system. Most everyone I know is already convinced that under NSPS managers will make twice as much while the working bees make half as much. The perception is that NSPS will have all the pragmatic efficacy of Napoleon's incursion into Russia. Concerns of this sort cannot be categorically disregarded. Abuses of Paybanding systems have ALREADY been disinterred at such agencies as TSA & FAA. In both cases, management has received a dis-proportionate number of performance awards / bonuses and the systems are seen as the antipode of fairness to the rank-and-file workers. Even if this perception is wildly off the mark, and even if NSPS does NOT open the floodgates that will allow practices such as nepotism, cronyism and gender & ethnic discrimination, the fact remains that the perception is still there. IF we misfire on this, it will not be merely another botched government initiative. Rather,it is something that could transport the entire civil service well beyond the brink of nihilism. Have the geniuses @ the Pentagon and the think tanks considered this issue?