Schedule Policy/Career Rule to Strengthen Accountability"> OPM Finalizes Schedule Policy/Career Rule to Strengthen Accountability
'...The final rule implements Executive Order 14171, signed by President Trump on January 20, 2025, which directed OPM to modernize how policy-influencing positions are designated and managed across the federal government to ensure that employees holding these crucially important positions can be held accountable for poor performance or misconduct. Schedule Policy/Career applies to a limited set of policy-influencing positions that are confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating in nature. These roles will remain career positions and continue to be filled through merit-based hiring procedures, including application of veterans’ preference, but will no longer be subject to the removal procedures that have made accountability for poor performance and misconduct exceedingly rare.
“Schedule Policy/Career restores a basic principle of democratic governance...'
Reference: www.opm.gov
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