The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published a final rule on Thursday establishing Schedule Policy/Career in the excepted service, a move that makes it easier for the Trump administration to fire federal employees in policy-making positions. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued marching orders on Jan. 27 for Federal agencies to comb through their workforce rolls and submit to OPM by April 20 preliminary lists of employees who they want to designate under the new “Schedule Policy/Career” classification that will make them easier to replace. […]

President Trump signed an executive order on Monday that reinstates a plan from his prior administration to create a new Schedule F classification for Federal agency employees in policy-making positions that will make it easier for the new administration to replace them. […]