Agencies to Have Wide Latitude In Deciding Which Jobs to Strip of Civil Service Protections

NextGov: The Office of Personnel Management on Friday appeared to give agencies wide latitude in determining which career federal employees should be converted to at-will political appointees under a controversial executive order signed by President Trump this week.

On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order creating a new Schedule F within the excepted service for “confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions,” pulling those jobs out of the traditional competitive hiring process and making it such that employees in those positions can be fired without cause, stripping workers of their civil service protections.

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