Implementing Schedule Policy/Career in the Excepted Service
Trump Issues Order to Make Firing Policy-Influencing Federal Workers Easier
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Federal career employees in policy-influencing roles will be reclassified into Schedule Policy/Career, stripping them of longstanding civil service protections against removal. They can now be fired much more easily for misconduct or poor performance without the usual appeals process. While the order promises merit-based hiring and new bonus programs, the core change is a major reduction in job security for potentially tens of thousands of career workers. This could discourage frank policy advice and make career staff more vulnerable to politically motivated firings, even though the order says hiring won't be based on political affiliation.
“Schedule Policy/Career positions are exempted from the adverse action procedures that make removals for poor performance or misconduct so difficult that barely two-fifths of Federal supervisors believe they could remove subordinates who engage in serious misconduct, and only a quarter believe they could remove serious underperformers.”
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Executive Order
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Implementing Schedule Policy/Career in the Excepted Service
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