Shea-Porter to Offer Amendment to End NSPS
Legislation the House Armed Services Committee will consider today could make many Pentagon civilians giddy.
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-N.H.) plans to offer an amendment to the Defense authorization bill that would effectively end the pay for performance system known as the National Security Personnel System. Federal employee unions and many workers have long called for the dismantling of NSPS. "With worker morale reaching an unprecedented low, the time has come to abandon this ill-conceived plan, which has wasted billions of taxpayers' dollars," Richard N. Brown, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees, said in a letter supporting the amendment.
Under the Shea-Porter amendment, within one year all NSPS employees would convert to the General Schedule, the pay system for most federal workers, unless the Defense secretary notifies Congress of significant NSPS improvements. Similar provisions would apply to the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System.
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Marcia Davis
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June 16, 2009; 9:49 AM ET
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I am happy that some one is doing something about NSPS. It is a unfair system which surpresses wage in the long run for DOD employees. The sold the new system like it was going to provide be pay outs to employees that did exceptional, but it did not. Also, if you wanted to take another job you can only get up to 5% increase in pay. In the GS system you would get a substantial raise from lets say GS-11 to GS-12. Furthermore, the employee does not have a say so if they get a bonus or a salary increase. I really hope we get raid of this garbage system. Down with NSPS.