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Although never fully implemented, a new GAO report reveals two agencies that started initial steps of reclassifying positions to Schedule F.
In today's Federal Newscast: GAO lifts the veil to show hundreds of federal employees were being prepped for easier firing under Schedule F. The nominee to be the National Archivist encounters a political speed bump. And the Labor Department is finding a way out of its technical debt.
The case of a dismissed VA chaplain shows how long it can take to resolve an appealed firing.
The Preventing a Patronage System Act cleared the House in a vote of 225-204, but timing for the Senate’s companion legislation remains uncertain.
The House Rules Committee passed the Preventing a Patronage System Act favorably in a vote of 8-4 along party lines. Now, it moves to the full House floor.
Congress has a lot on its plate to try to avoid a continuing resolution, including a host of appropriations bills.
Jeff Neal writes that the more civil servants see attacks by political appointees and politicians on their skills, work, integrity and even their patriotism, the more likely it is that they will not stay and that it will be even harder to find qualified replacements.
A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives, titled the Public Service Reform Act, is not about public service and is certainly not reform. Rather than addressing accountability or hiring and pay challenges, the bill would make all federal workers at-will employees. The result would be a civil service that is little more than two million political appointees.
The Chief Information Officer at GSA is seemingly in unrestrained hiring mode. Meanwhile, federal employees under 30 are resigning at higher rates than the overall average.
The Preventing a Patronage System Act would stop any federal job from reclassification outside of merit system principles.
Senate Democrats unveiled 12 draft appropriations bills, with a 10.1% boost for civilian agencies, and an 8.7% increase in defense spending.
Does any reasonable person think that having 50,000 more political appointees turning over every four or eight years is a good idea?
Former Trump administration officials and lawmakers are revisiting several of President Donald Trump’s most controversial policies affecting the federal workforce as a playbook for a possible second term.
The House will consider several workforce-related amendments to the 2023 Defense Authorization Act, including bringing TSA employees under Title 5.