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Posted on 06/08/2026 8:53:17 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Organizations representing federal workers and good government advocates were quick to decry President Trump’s move this week to formally strip around 8,000 federal workers of their civil service protections, making them at-will employees, though the exact contours of the initiative’s scope remain unclear.
Wednesday’s executive order implements Schedule Policy/Career, a new job category within the excepted service -- formerly known as Schedule F -- designed for career employees in “policy-related” positions who lack the removal protections in Title 5 of the U.S. Code and of the right to appeal adverse personnel actions. Under Office of Personnel Management regulations that took effect in March, whistleblower complaints from Schedule Policy/Career employees would no longer go to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, instead being referred internally to the employing agency’s general counsel for review.
The edict tasks agencies with reclassifying the roughly 8,000 federal workers into Schedule Policy/Career within seven days -- by June 10 -- as well as set up a separate bonus pool for those workers to recognize “outstanding work.” And OPM is expected to propose new regulations setting up a new governmentwide presidential award program for the job category.
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Most unexpected, Captain.
If they’re not outraged over something, you’re not on your game.
“Organizations representing federal workers” Well, right there is the problem.
Private Sector is at-will employment. Incentive to actually show up and perform your job duties. Do it well or excel, bonuses and raises. Show up and cruise, management will free you from job-lock so you can cry on tic-toc. Welcome to the real world public sector.
So they’re just as vulnerable to getting shown the door as millions of non-government employees across the country. The horror.
So they’re just as vulnerable to getting shown the door as millions of non-government employees across the country. The horror.
Yeah, right.
These leftists ALWAYS name things the opposite of what they really are.
The Progressive/Fascistic Democrats hate that elections should have consequences and object to any reduction of their biggest creation - the unelected unconstitutional 4th branch of government which is the administrative state.
Trump is the first President since FDR to contest that unconstitutional notion that Congress can, without any Constitutional amendment, create a part of the executive branch but for the Chief executive to not control it and direct its policies.
“If they’re not outraged over something...”
I can’t see the problem with the move. If the common employee in the US can be terminated for lack of work, then why not civil service? Besides, there’s more to it than just job consideration.
“The edict tasks agencies with reclassifying the roughly 8,000 federal workers into Schedule Policy/Career within seven days — by June 10 — as well as set up a separate bonus pool for those workers to recognize “outstanding work.”
That used to be called an incentive.
wy69
You can say that again.
Private sector is at will only in certain states.
Government Executive is a big government blog.
So no surprise.
"Wednesday’s executive order implements Schedule Policy/Career, a new job category within the excepted service -- formerly known as Schedule F -- designed for career employees in “policy-related” positions who lack the removal protections in Title 5 of the U.S. Code and of the right to appeal adverse personnel actions. Under Office of Personnel Management regulations that took effect in March, whistleblower complaints from Schedule Policy/Career employees would no longer go to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, instead being referred internally to the employing agency’s general counsel for review."
—The US federal government is itself one of the biggest obstacles to economic growth! Today, the federal government is in the business of dictating what light-bulb you get to buy, how much water your toilet may use per flush, how many EVs must be sold by 2030...
—The US federal government instead of protecting peoples civil rights has become itself one of the biggest violators of them: sharing our medical / financial information, Covid, J6, warrantless searches at airports, people getting X-rayed at border crossings where you drive through, issuing NSLs, FISA courts (secret courts where you can't see your accuser nor defend yourself, WTF!), mass intel collection programs which are obviously unconstitutional, so called First Amendment or Free Speech Zones (which really tell you where you can't exercise your rights - which is ANYWHERE), declaring 500 ft around abortion clinics to be some special protected zone (limits peoples right to free speech and movement - totally wrong)...
IMHO, Trump as usual is spot on.
Frankly, I have to thank the liberals and Democrats, really I do!!!
They pushed hard for ever more Covid rules and restrictions, shut downs, social distancing, etc. At one point, as much as 75% of the federal work force was sent home. They were gone for as long as 6 months!!!
What happened?
Did the earth fall out of orbit or stop spinning? Did the sun not rise the next day?
3/4 rs of the federal workforce was GONE for 6 months, AND IT CHANGED NOTHING!!! What should that tell you?!?!?!?!
The federal government has a need and function, but it has far grown beyond it's practical and efficient usefulness. You have massive redundancy (duplication: DEA and ATF), entire organizations which if they just vaporized tomorrow things would only run faster and smoother Department of Education, the TSA, most of the EPA... These are all just political creations and this country DID run perfectly well without them. They are creations because Nixon wanted to politically grandstand with the war on drugs and created the DEA. Carter put solar panels on the White House roof and created the EPA. Bush W. needed to “show action” post 9-11 and created the TSA... These are about ideological theories and political grand standing and do not serve a true function which justifies their budget or the problems they cause for the average citizen and business. They are best DONE AWAY WITH all together!
Just stupid ideas borne from the vents of time where many years later and with a cool mind you can say, “that don't make sense.”
The TSA costs the American public over $9,000,000,000 a year, they now have been around for 25 years, and to date has not caught one single terrorist! Other than making you late for a flight, making you take off your shoes, digging through your belongings (without a warrant), what do they accomplish? NOTHING!!! They see themselves as successful when they catch some kid with weed and call the real cops, or if they find a bullet in a carry-on from a woman with a CHL that went to a range a week ago, normally carries, and poses ZERO risk. Just WORTHLESS!
Other than Montana what states do Not have at will employment?
In a representative government ALL employees should be at-will employees, serving at the pleasure of the elected officials and their appointees over them. Otherwise its not really a representative government.
Stevie Wonder saw this coming
The slugs won’t like this...
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