| Comment Number: | OL-3400000 |
| Received: | 2/14/2005 10:25:42 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:
I would like to register a complaint about the CPAC procedures for new employees in the GS system. I hope that my input will help to facilitate a better understanding of the employee and CPAC. Being new to the Army as a spouse of an Army soldier, this was my first time to have contact with CHRMA or CPAC. I am a highly skilled individual in the private sector, but relocated to Europe to be with my husband. I decided to find employment with the Army in a position near his unit to keep my skills active as a professional accountant. When I raised the question if I take a GS 9 position will I be stuck in that position because I keep reading about restrictions, they replied that no, I would not. They said that I would be able to apply for any position, and if I was hired there would not be any restrictions. I will have to be in this position for 52 weeks minimum before I can apply for a position, only 1-grade higher, than my position here. And one-grade higher is still way below my experience as an accountant in the real world. The GS position determines my career in the GS system. This was in no way fair to me. On the career track and CP-11 program to become a military comptroller, you have to be in a GS-11 position. The other requirements for the program, I already meet from my civilian experience as a C.P.A. I would like this issue to be addressed. And I want the opportunity to keep on my career track as a Comptroller or starting in a GS 11 position. I am finding that your GS position determines the opportunities you have in this field. And the Federal System is going to lose competent, skilled, market individuals with this Time-in-grade restriction in place.