Comment on Schedule P/C

On April 23rd, the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published a proposal for a new regulation titled “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service” in the Federal Register. This regulation would revive a category of federal employees called “Schedule F” (first introduced in 2020 by the Trump administration and subsequently repealed under the prior Biden administration),  under a new name, “Schedule Policy / Career.”  This new category or “schedule” of federal workers  would not have civil service job protections, making them effectively at-will employees who could be easily fired by the Trump administration. The new regulation would also involuntarily move tens of thousands (or more) current federal employees into this new "Schedule P/C,"  category thus stripping current civil servants of their job protections. OPM has provided a 30-day comment window before the regulation is finalized – and  the comment deadline has been extended to this Saturday June 7. We encourage individuals to submit comments here, IFPTE has provided a template for comments. Additional information on this new rule is also available here from Democracy Forward.