What will the BP or NSPS look like?
It will likely include a type of pay banding scheme with 5 career groups and as many as 4 bands per group. It will lengthen the time someone can be a term or temporary employee. It will allow local management to define the term “difficult to fill positions” and hire people for these positions on the spot, rather than competitively. It will expand the probationary period to as long as three years, and it will “dumb down” the scholastic achievement appointments so that a B average, rather than a B+, will be good enough. Salaries will be described in pay bands, but the salary any individual will earn in any given year will depend on a supervisor’s view of the individual worker’s ability, competence, contribution to mission, or “performance.” For example, if someone doesn’t exhibit adequate “team spirit,” it appears that her base salary could be lowered. If someone has a stress-inducing event in his life outside work, the supervisor can decide that the worker won’t be able to perform at th
