President-elect Donald Trump late Friday said he will nominate Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) – reprising his role as OMB director from 2019 to 2021 during the first Trump administration – and handing Vought the reins on a host of crucial issues for the Federal workforce and how Federal agencies function. […]

Federal workforce experts told lawmakers today that the potential revival of a controversial Trump-era Federal workforce policy known as “Schedule F” would not only disrupt the stability of the Federal workforce, but it would also weaken national security. […]

Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., introduced legislation on Friday that they said aims to strengthen the State Department’s workforce and ensure senior leaders are selected based on a merit-based system – “not money or politics.” […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) today issued a final rule confirming protections for career civil servants against the potential reemergence of a controversial Trump-era Federal workforce policy that aimed to create a new “Schedule F” for employees in policymaking roles that would make it easier to fire them. […]

A group of Democratic lawmakers led by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., sent a letter on Monday to Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Kiran Ahuja to voice its support for a proposed rule that aims to protect career civil servants against a Trump-era Federal workforce policy known as “Schedule F.” […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) today announced a proposed rule that aims to protect career civil servants against a controversial Trump-era Federal workforce policy known as “Schedule F,” which makes it easier to fire Federal employees. […]

Legislation that aims to block the possible return of a controversial Trump-era Federal workforce policy is trying to hitch a ride on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which the Senate is expected to take up on the floor for a debate and vote later this week. […]

Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate have reintroduced a bill that would make it easier to fire Federal employees, making them at-will workers. […]

Reps. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., debuted a new version of bipartisan legislation in the House today that aims to “protect the federal workforce from politicization and political manipulation” by preventing wholesale reclassifications of Federal employees without the consent of lawmakers. […]

The House of Representatives voted 225-204 on Sept. 15 to approve the Preventing a Patronage System Act, which aims to block any future moves to assign Federal workers to newly created “excepted” service schedules. […]

New legislation filed in the Senate today would prevent any future attempts to undertake wholesale reclassifications of Federal civil servants and replace them with political appointees without the consent of Congress. […]

A bill that would take action to block any future moves to assign Federal workers to newly created “excepted” service schedules was approved by the House Oversight and Reform Committee by voice vote on May 25 after some contentious debate. […]

The House Government Operations Subcommittee has scheduled a hearing for Feb. 23 at 11 a.m. EST on ways to “rebuild” the Federal workforce after four years of bruising under the Trump administration, including a late 2020 bid to establish a new classification for policy-related Federal positions. […]

The White House said today President Biden will sign an executive order that cancels a previous order issued by former President Trump last October that created a new “Schedule F” classification for Federal employees in policy-making positions and made it easier to hire and fire them. […]

House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Gerry Connolly, D-Va., asked Office of Management and Budget (OMB) leaders in a Jan. 15 letter to halt implementation of the Trump administration’s 2020 executive order that created a new “Schedule F” classification for Federal employees in policy-making positions. […]

A bill introduced in the House by Reps. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and Ryan Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., on Jan. 13 aims to invalidate a controversial executive order issued by the Trump administration in October 2020 that created a new “Schedule F” classification for Federal employees in policy-making positions and makes it easier to hire and fire them. […]

The chairs of 23 House committees and subcommittees sent a letter to Federal agency heads on Nov. 25 inquiring about the extent to which Trump administration political appointees may have “burrowed” into more permanent employment with the government through conversion of their jobs into civil service positions. […]

House and Senate leaders have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to provide multiple briefings to members of Congress on how the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is going about implementing President Trump’s controversial executive order to create a new “Schedule F” classification for Federal employees in policy-making positions. […]

More than three dozen Senate Democrats and independents have lined up to support new legislation that would block implementation of President Trump’s controversial executive order that would create a new “Schedule F” classification for Federal employees in policy-making positions and make it easier to hire and fire them. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) explained in an Oct. 23 memo to Federal agency heads how it wants them to implement President Trump’s controversial executive order that creates a new Schedule F classification for employees in policy-making positions, but emphasized that OPM retains the final say in approving which employees are placed under the new schedule. […]

An executive order (EO) released on October 21 creates a new classification in the Federal workforce for career professionals in “policy-making” positions, with provisions that could make it easier to hire and fire employees and prevent them from joining unions. […]