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• OPM proposes rule to formally revive Schedule F - April 18, 2025

• By Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  The Office of Personnel Management on Friday filed proposed regulations that would formally revive Schedule F, setting the stage for tens of thousands of federal workers to be stripped of their civil service protections, making them effectively at-will employees.
  
  The proposal, which will be published in the Federal Register on April 23, outlines the new excepted service category, now called Schedule Policy/Career, purports to remove “cumbersome adverse action procedures” for employees in what the administration deems to be policy-related jobs and accused the Biden administration, which filed its own regulations last year seeking to prevent Schedule F’s return, of “protecting poor performers.”
  
  OPM estimates that around 50,000 federal workers will be placed in the new job category, or around 2% of the civilian workforce.

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