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Schedule F was never fully implemented and was removed when the Biden Administration came in.
Here are the characteristics of this scary autocracy claim.
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btw... this IS what anons do... just sayin..
The legal basis for the Schedule F appointment was a section of the
Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (
5 U.S.C. § 7511(b)(2)), which exempts from civil service protections federal employees "whose position has been determined to be of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating character". The provision had been little noticed and unused before its application by the Schedule F order.
[1]
The stated purpose of the order was to increase flexibility in hiring and firing to improve performance management
[2] and accountability.
[3] The Civil Service Rules and Regulations would not have covered employees within the Schedule F classification,
[2] including due process and possibly collective bargaining rights.
[3] However, appointees could not have been fired based on certain protected statuses, such as
whistleblower status, partisan affiliation, or for claiming discrimination or harassment.
[3][4] It would also have streamlined hiring for these positions, since a competitive examination would not be required.
[5]: 2
The Executive Order also provided transition procedures for transferring covered positions out of the
competitive service into Schedule F, by which executive agency heads must petition the Director of the
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) with a list of positions to be converted with a written rationale. The OPM Director had the sole power to decide whether to grant the petition.
[2][6][7]
The Schedule F classification included "positions of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character not normally subject to change as a result of a Presidential transition".
[2] They are distinguished from
Schedule C appointments, which cover policy-making positions that do change with the Presidential transition.
[5]: 5–6 The Executive Order listed several characteristics of jobs that may fall under the Schedule F classification:
[2]
- substantive participation in advocacy, development, or formulation of policy, especially of regulations and guidance
- substantive policy-related work in an agency or component that primarily focuses on policy
- the supervision of attorneys
- substantial discretion to determine how the agency exercises functions committed to it by law
- working with non-public policy proposals or deliberations generally covered by deliberative process privilege, and either:
- directly reporting to or regularly working with an individual appointed by either the President, or by an agency head paid at the GS-13 level or higher, or
- working in the executive secretariat of the agency or component
- conducting certain collective bargaining negotiations on the agency's behalf
According to OPM, these provisions were guidelines, as not all positions covered by them were required to be converted to Schedule F, and positions not covered by them may have been converted.
[3][8] The provisions were broad enough to include many scientists, attorneys, regulators, public health experts, and others in senior roles. The estimated number of employees they covered ranged from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.
[3]
Please Note:
The Executive Order also provided transition procedures for transferring covered positions out of the
competitive service into Schedule F, by which executive agency heads must petition the Director of the
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) with a list of positions to be converted with a written rationale.
The OPM Director had the sole power to decide whether to grant the petition.[2][6][7]
This is not a dictatorship. Trump would not be the one making the decisions of who stays and who goes but would be in the power of the OPM Director.
Also: where was this originated:
The legal basis for the Schedule F appointment was a section of the
Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (
5 U.S.C. § 7511(b)(2)), which exempts from civil service protections federal employees "whose position has been determined to be of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating character".
Let's look at this Civil Service Reform Act of 1978....
Edited to add link.
