The Federal Managers Association (FMA) released a statement last week to ensure

that none of the 226,000 Department of Defense (DoD) federal employees currently

in the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) are "negatively impacted

in an unjust manner" during their transition back to their former pay

system.

The enactment of the 2010 National Defense Authorization

Act signified the end of the controversial NSPS pay-for-performance

system.  DoD officials recently stated that employees in NSPS will be

transistioned back to their former pay system (many to the General Schedule) by

October 2010 -- a year earlier than expected. 

"We ... believe aggressive steps must be taken to protect the interests of

the DOD civilians who labored and succeeded under a system they did not ask

to be a part of and who may be adversely impacted by a conversion back to

their previous personnel systems," FMA stated.

To read the full statement and a list of concerns and recommendations

FMA believes DoD must address href="http://www.fedmanagers.org/public/pdfs/2010%20NSPS%20One%20Pager.pdf"

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