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OPM Announces Proposed Rule to Protect Career Civil Servants


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​The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced a proposed rule on Sept. 15 that would reinforce long-standing protections and merit system principles for career civil servants. The previous administration had issued an executive order, which President Joe Biden revoked, that would have directed agencies to recategorize many career employees into a new at-will status that would have removed their civil service protections. We’ve gathered articles on the news from SHRM Online and other outlets.

Millions of Civil Servants

“The proposed rule honors our 2.2 million career civil servants, helping to ensure they can carry out their duties without fear of political reprisal,” said OPM Director Kiran Ahuja. “Career federal employees deliver critical services for Americans in every community. Prior attempts to needlessly politicize their work risked harming the American people.”

(OPM)

Trump’s Revoked Executive Order

In October 2020, President Donald Trump issued an executive order creating a new job category, called Schedule F, for certain federal employees in confidential, policymaking and policy-advocating positions. Under this executive order, federal agencies could decide which employees to put in this category, and those jobs would become “excepted services” roles. This would enable agencies to expedite hiring and firing processes for those jobs rather than having to follow the traditional competitive hiring procedures. Biden revoked this executive order on Jan. 22,…


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