Implementing Schedule Policy/Career in the Excepted Service
Implements 'Schedule Policy/Career' in the excepted service for federal employees in policy-influencing positions across the executive branch. It amends the Civil Service Rules to move these positions out of the competitive service, exempting them from certain adverse-action and appeal procedures so agencies can more readily remove holders for poor performance or misconduct, while directing that the positions be filled on merit rather than political affiliation and remain eligible for performance awards. It is the operative successor to the Schedule F line reinstated and renamed by EO 14171.
Section by Section
What each section does, and how they differ.
Establishes Schedule Policy/Career positions in the federal excepted service to enhance presidential accountability and enable merit-based hiring of policy-influencing career positions with simplified removal procedures.
Amends Civil Service Rules I, III, VI, and XI to integrate Schedule Policy/Career into the excepted service framework, allowing employees to retain competitive status and establishing merit-based hiring procedures.
Makes related amendments to prior executive orders regarding the civil service and excepted service positions.
Directs agencies to establish performance awards and bonus pools for Schedule Policy/Career employees to recognize outstanding contributions.
Designates specific positions as Schedule Policy/Career based on their confidential, policy-determining, or policy-advocating character; requires agencies to notify affected employees within seven days.
Standard boilerplate: preserves existing agency authority, conditions the order on appropriations, and creates no enforceable private rights; includes severability clause.