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Trump moves senior career officials to Schedule F without civil service protections

Trump moves senior career officials to Schedule F without civil service protections

President Trump on 3 June 2026 signed an executive order converting roughly 8,000 senior career federal jobs into Schedule Policy/Career, stripping the incumbents of civil service protections and making them effectively at-will employees, Government Executive reported. About 97 percent are GS-15s or senior leaders—office and

Trump admin moves to reclassify federal workers under Schedule Policy/Career, fka F

Trump admin moves to reclassify federal workers under Schedule Policy/Career, fka F

OPM issued guidance to federal agencies on implementing President Trump’s executive order reinstating and modifying Schedule F—now renamed Schedule Policy/Career—which could remove civil service protections from thousands of federal employees in policy-related positions. Agencies have until April 20, 2025, to submit initial petitions for reclassification,

Trump’s potential strategies to terminate federal workforce go beyond Schedule F

Trump’s potential strategies to terminate federal workforce go beyond Schedule F

FedNewsNetwork’s Jory Heckman writes an excellent piece on the incoming Trump administration’s options to reshape the federal workforce beyond reinstating Schedule F, the proposed classification without job protections for certain policy-related civil service positions. President-elect Donald Trump’s administration could use tools like placing employees on