The Trump administration is positioning itself to make it easier to discipline and possibly fire career federal workers in senior positions throughout the government, which could impact roughly 50,000 federal employees.
The agency overseeing the federal workforce, the Office of Personnel Management, is publishing a final rule on Feb. 6 that establishes an employee category for senior career workers who are engaged in implementing administration policy, called “Schedule Policy/Career positions.”
Now those employees are exempt from key sections of U.S. Code Title 5—chapters 43 and 75—referred to as “Performance Appraisal” and “Adverse Actions,” respectively. Both portions set rules for how federal employees’ performance can be evaluated, appraised, and the extent to which they can be disciplined or dismissed from their roles. …
Trump Admin Issues New Rule Making It Easier to Fire Senior Federal Workers
