WP: New Pay Scheme, Tied to Performance, Begins at Defense Department

[DeepModem Mom]

New Pay Scheme, Tied to Performance, Begins at Defense Department
By Stephen Barr
Monday, May 1, 2006; Page D04

About 11,000 Defense Department civil service employees go to work today under a new salary system -- the pioneers in an ambitious effort to more closely link pay raises to occupations, locations and job performance.

Gordon R. England , the deputy defense secretary, signed a directive to implement the National Security Personnel System on Friday afternoon at the Pentagon.

The directive, which took effect yesterday, sets up new rules and practices for pay, employee evaluations, job classification, job assignments and layoffs....Administration officials hope the NSPS will make it easier to reward the department's best workers and to weed out poor performers.

The changes at Defense, and a similar effort at the Department of Homeland Security, grew out of dissatisfaction with personnel red tape and the feeling, after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, that national security agencies should be able to quickly hire experts and deploy employees....

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But the decision to leave the government-wide pay system has caused some unease in the Defense workforce, especially among union members who think that giving greater discretion to managers to decide pay raises will increase favoritism and cronyism....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/29/AR2006042901759.html?nav=hcmodule

[bullimiami]

1. i cant see how that can be corrupted....

:sarcasm:

[saigon68]

2. How do you do a pay increase for anal rapists

Like the ones in the Taguba report at Abu Ghraib who sodomized young boys in the rectum.

[Coventina]

3. Well, I guess Rummy will take a massive pay cut! n/t

[tridim]

4. "to weed out poor performers"

And to weed out Democrats no doubt.

[sweetheart]

9. like those who set the US up to be attacked?

Or those who allow such attacks on their watch?
Or those who abuse the military for private wars?
Or those who say "yesssirr" when the plantation master fuckup sings.

[underpants]

5. National Security Personnel System -right out of the playbook

not just the name (okay we get it with the National Security...too bad you all didn't before 9/11) already.

I could smell union busting right away too.

[Pithy Cherub]

6. Rummy now owes the US 300 billion dollars for his dismal

performance. That doesn't include the payment he owes in the after life for all of the blood spilled for no noble cause.

[rodeodance]

7. recall Bush wanted 'flexibility' when the Depts merged into DHS--this is

one major effect of the merger--and chizzling away at unions.

[formercia]

8. Upon swearing fealty to Fearless Leader

you gain an automatic 30 points added to your peorformance report.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fealty

An oath of fealty, from the Latin fidelitas or faithfulness, is a pledge of allegiance of one person to another. Typically the oath is made upon a religious object such as a Bible or saint's relic thus binding the oath taker before God.

In medieval Europe, fealty was sworn between two people, the obliged person (vassal) and a person of rank (lord). This was done as part of a formal commendation ceremony to create a feudal relationship.

Fealty and homage are a key element of feudalism.

The term is also used by English speakers to refer to similar oaths of allegiance in other feudal cultures, as with Japan prior to about 1500.

[Acadia Blue]

10. Oh yes. You are exactly correct. That is what the neo-fascists want.

They corrupt everyone and everthing that they can.

[formercia]

11. Oath of Loyalty Law

http://www.adolfhitler.ws/lib/proc/Oath.html

Oath of Loyalty Law
Oath of Reich Officials and German Soldiers


Berlin 20 August 1934

Article 1.
The public officials and the soldiers of the armed forces must take an oath of loyalty on entering service.

Article 2.
1) The oath of public officals will be:
' I swear: I shall be loyal and obedient to Adolf Hitler, the Führer of the German Reich and people, respect the laws and fulfill my official duties conscientiously, so help me God.'

2) The oath of service of the soldiers of the Armed forces shall be:
"I swear by God this scared oath: I will render unconditional obedience to Adolf Hitler, the Führer of the German nation and people, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and will be ready as a brave solider to risk my life at my time for this oath.'

Article 3.
Officials already in service must swear the oath without delay according to article 2 number 1.