Example of pay related red tape

[IgD]

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Here are some excerpts from an e-mail I recently received concerning physician pay:

"Health Affairs has released the Special Pay Plan for FY06. However, Navy personnel CANNOT apply for FY06 Special Pays until the NAVADMIN for FY06 Special Pays is signed by the Chief, Naval Personnel and released. We anticipate that the NAVADMIN will be out in several weeks.

FY06 special pay contracts received by BUMED before release of the NAVADMIN will not have the correct references cited and WILL NOT be accepted. (They will be shredded. BUMED Special Pays has contacted commands and told them not to send FY06 contracts until the NAVADMIN is released, but people are still sending them in.) To be accepted, the contract must have the correct FY06 references..."

I suspect this is the kind of thing that participants in the 2005 medical officer pool were thinking about when they complained about red tape. Why does it have to be so complicated? We do job X and you pay us amount Y. Fixing something like this would go a long way towards improving job satisfaction.

 

[USAFdoc]

absolutely; it is one thing to have some frustration with difficult to fix problems, and another to have EASILY fixable problems fester. Military special pay for physicians is just one example, but a good one. It should be no more difficult to have this special pay "automatically" done and in your paycheck than what happens with the housing portion or other pays that are included in a paycheck. At the very least, each command could have a person assigned to handle this.

 

[r90t]

Must be a nurse bucking for O-5 writing these directives.

 

[militarymd]

As noted before, I suspect that the reason that special pays aren't automatically given is that they want to give local COs a little extra control over the physicians......Special pays can be withheld if you don't do certain things.....like keeping fit, etc.

 

[USAFdoc]

As noted before, I suspect that the reason that special pays aren't automatically given is that they want to give local COs a little extra control over the physicians......Special pays can be withheld if you don't do certain things.....like keeping fit, etc.

imagine what life would be like for all military personnel if each person's boss held the power to dock their pay up to 10,000 bucks at their descretion.

It is just the wrong way to do business.