New executive order could strip civil service protections from ‘wide swaths’ of federal workforce
October 22, 2020
President Donald Trump signed a new executive order that will reclassify a portion of the career federal workforce, giving agency heads the ability to hire and fire them at will under a new class in the excepted service.
The order, which the White House released Wednesday evening, creates a new schedule in the excepted service known as “Schedule F.”
It gives agency heads the authority to reclassify certain confidential, policy-making, determining or advocating positions from the career civil service to the excepted service under this new schedule.
Bitches don’t like it haha:
The American Federation of Government Employees called the executive order the “most profound undermining of the civil service in our lifetimes,” describing it as an effort by the president to “politicize and corrupt the professional service.”
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Thanks for those two replies, lj!
I wasn’t aware of the latest EO on the subject. Just recalled the one about the VA from a couple of years ago.