The Working For America Act which, according
to many high ranking government officials, is designed to bring the
benefits of the new personnel systems being considered for the NSPS and
DHS to the rest of the federal civilian workforce is currently being
considered in Congress.

Max Stier, the president and chief executive officer of the
Partnership for Public Service, said in a recent hearing that the
federal pay and classification system is “no longer good enough to
attract and retain the best and the brightest”.

If we accept this statement as true then we must conclude that all
federal employees hired under our present system no matter how hard
they try are just not the best or the brighest because our system was
incapable of attracting or retaining them if they were.

Our present system is over fifty years old that means that no
living government employee is either the best or the brightest unless
they were hired prior to our present personnel system.

This will naturally lead us to a thought of even greater concern.
The proponents and future managers of the proposed new personnel
systems are for the most part government employees.

Therefore we are now left with the distinct possibility according
to Mr Stier's suggestion that the new personnel systems were proposed
by and will be managed by those who are neither the best nor the
brightest.

This is certainly food for thought when considering the viability of the new personnel systems.

 

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