FBN COMPENSATION PLAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP07-02184R000300520024-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2012
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: August 8, 1983
• Content Type: CABLE

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C 0 N F I D E N T I A L 081321Z AUG 53 STAFF
CITE FDIS/PANAMA CITY 70614
IORITY FBIS.
a1JLsJECT: Fly' COMPENSATION PLAN
REF: FE IS 15666
07-02184 R000300520024-6
1. DIRECTOR OF PANAMA AREA PERSONNEL BOARD CONFIRMS HOP
ASSUMPTION THAT TREATY PROVISIONS DO NOT PRECULDE APPLICATION OF
NEW FB N COMPENSATION PLAN .TO ALL BUREAU EMPLOYEES -- POST-TREATY
HIRES CURRENTLY ON THE PANAMA AREA (LN) SCALE AS WELL AS
FE-TREATY EMPLOYEES CURRENTLY ON THE CANAL AREA (NM) SCALE.
2. DEFORE PERSONNEL ACTIONS NOTED IN REF ARE CUT, HOWEVER,
STRONGLY SUGGEST FOLLOWING CHANGES AND CORRECTIONS WHICH SHOULD
SAVE US A LITTLE GRIEF DOWN THE LINE:
A. TRANSFER MPLOYEES~
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INSTEAD OF 7/1. THESE ARE ALL RELATIVELY NEW EMPLOYEES, STILL
IN THE TRAINE: PHASE OF THEIR CAREERS. CONVERTING THEM TO THE
7 LEVEL AT THIS TIME WOULD BE LIKE PROMOTING THEM PREMATURELY.
IT WOULD PLACE THEM AT THE SAME GRADE AND SALARY AS MONITORS
WHO HAVE ALREADY GRADUATED FROM,THE TRAINING PROGRAM AND ARE
WORKING ON THEIR OWN.
THIS BUREAU HAS TRADITIONALLY HIRED MONITORS AT THE
6 LEVEL. ALTHOUGH COMPENSATION AT THIS LEVEL MAY EVENTUALLY
BECNONE UNCPMPETITIVE, IT IS NOT AT THIS TIME. WE STRONGLY PREFER
TO CONTINUE THIS PRACTICE.' IT NOT ONLY PROVIDES THAT MUCH MORE
HEADROOM FOR OUR MONITORIAL STAFF, BUT TO CHANGE IT UNNECESSARILY
AT THIS TINE WOULD ONLY ADD TO THE ADVERSE IMPACT ON MORALE THAT
I S CERTAIN TO MMF , r SATION PLAN IS MADE KNOWN.
NO TRANSFER
NECESSARY.
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C. CONCUR IN TRANSFER OF
TO FEN 7/2. THEY E
D. ALSO CONCUR IN TRANSFER OF
FSN1/1.
25X1
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3. FINALLY, I CANNOT LET THIS CO WITHOUT REGISTERING VERY
STRENUOUSLY MY DISAPPOINTMENT AND DISPLEASURE (THAT'S THE NICEST
WAY I CAN PHRASE IT) AT THE TOTAL LACK OF COMMINICATION FROM HO
REGARDING THIS CHANCE. I THINK YOU WILL FIND FROM READING MY
MESSAGES THAT IT WAS CLEARLY MY BELIEF THAT THE NEW FBN SCALE
WOULD BE APPLIED HERE ONLY RPT ONLY TO POST-TREATY EMPLOYEES.
IOREOVER, IN ALL OF MY DISCUSSIONS WITH AND OTHERS DURING 25X1
THE BUREAU CHIEFS CONFERENCE, THIS ASSUMPTION WAS NEVER
CONTRADICTED OR CHALLENGED. APPLICATION ONLY TO POST-TREATY
EMPLOYEES WOULD HAVE EFFECT OF CORRECTING A SERIOUS
COMPENSATION INEQUITY CREATED ktHEN THE PCC BOARD CHANGED THE LN
SCALE FROM LN-9 UP9 TO `PARRALLEL THE OLD NM SCALE. AT THE SAME TIME
IT WOULD BRING THE TWO BASIC PAY SCALES ON `WHICH THE BUREAU
OPERATED MORE OR LESS INTO SYNC WITH EACH OTHER. IN THIS WAY THE
NEW FBN SCALE COULD BE PAINLESSLY PHASED IN. NEW PERSONNEL EOD'ING
WOULD BE AWARE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THEIR PROSPECTIVE CAREER
PROGRESSION AND LIMITATIONS. PERSONNEL ON THE OLD NM SCALE WOULD
NOT BE AFFECTED, AND WHILE THEY CERTAINLY WOULD BE AWARE THAT
PROMOTION BEYOND ALREADY WELL-ESTABLISHED GRADE LEVELS PROBABLY
WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE, THEY WOULD STILL HAVE SOME HOPE. PLACING
THEM NEEDLESSLY ON THE FBN SCALE AT THIS TIME TOTALLY DASHES THIS
}LOPE TND GIVES THEM OBSOLUTELY NOTHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO. THE
ADVERSE AFFECT ON MORALE WILL BE PARTICULARLY ACUTE IN THE
TECHNICAL SECTION WHERE THE CURRENT SUPERVISOR IS AN NM-11 AND
THE TECHNICIANS ARE ALL NM-9'S.
4. MY POINT, IN CASE IT'S BEEN LOST IN THE PRECEDING
RHETORIC, IS: A) I FAIL TO SEE WHY HQ CHOOSES TO APPLY THE NEW
SALE TO ALL BUREAU EMPLOYEES AT THIS TIME', INSTEAD OF PHASING
IT IN AS NEW EMPLOYEES ARE HIRED, WHEN THIS IS SEEMINGLY
UNNECESSARY AND WHEN THE END RESULT IS SO OBVIOUSLY NEGATIVE;
AND, B) I'M BEWILDERED BY THE OBVIOUS LACK OF COMMUNICATION.
EITHER NO ONE IS READING MY MESSAGES AND CORRESPONDENCE ON THIS
(NOT TO MENTION THE POINTS MADE IN LENGTHY DISCUSSIONS IN HO IN
APRIL) OR THEY CHOSE TO IGNORE THEM.
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