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Equal Raises for Defense Employees in 2010, No Matter the Pay System
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Pay increases will be the same in 2010 for almost all Defense Department employees, regardless of whether they are covered by the controversial pay-for-performance or General Schedule system, the Pentagon has decided.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’s conclusion provides yet another measure of the troubled state of pay-for-performance, the National Security Personnel System, which was created by the Bush administration to replace the GS system. It follows a report this summe...
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NOVABuffalo
over 3 years ago
18 comments
Interesting - nobody likes the idea of pay for performance. I guess we will just go back to length of service being the key performance variable instead of results.
baker_1960
over 3 years ago
4 comments
What about Disabled veterans will they recieve an increase for 2010.
michael231962
over 3 years ago
2 comments
Please end this system, I believe it can be very racist and not equal when it comes to managers and there employees. This system falls very much under the "Good old boy plan" that DOD has had for a long time in some agencies.
BigSarge
over 3 years ago
66 comments
I am pretty sure it is for DOD employees.
AlabamaGirl
over 3 years ago
12 comments
Please end it now. I'm an NSPS employee (GS-12 getting a former GS-11 salary) who has lost over $8,000 when I got a so-called reassignment. This is extremely unfair, and I don't see how it can be legal. equal pay for equal work. NSPS does not get equal pay with the equivalent GS positions.
rstephens
over 3 years ago
2 comments
Does this go for TSA employees also ?