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  • MORE EXEMPTIONS ON FEDERAL HIRING FREEZE - February 1, 2017
  • Internal Promotions, Postal Service and CIA Among Trump's Hiring Freeze Exemptions

    By Eric Katz, Government Executive

    A slew of positions are now exempt from President Trump’s governmentwide hiring freeze, according to new guidance from the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management.

    In the second piece of guidance obtained by Government Executive since Trump signed the presidential memorandum last week ordering the freeze, Mark Sandy and Kathleen McGettigan, the respective acting OMB and OPM directors, spelled out in significant detail what exemptions the administration will permit. Trump’s memo initially said only positions in “national security and public safety” -- as well as those determined to be necessary by the OPM director -- would be free from the moratorium, though agencies have since interpreted that to include public health and other areas. 

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