The Office of Personnel Management has proposed regulations to revive Schedule F, which would strip civil service protections from around 50,000 federal workers, effectively making them at-will employees. The new system, termed Schedule Policy/Career, aims to streamline adverse action procedures for policy-related positions and assigns final job conversion authority to the president. The proposal, critiquing previous Biden regulations, indicates that many protections may be nullified without standard administrative processes, reflecting a significant shift in federal employment practices and worker protections instituted since the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act.
The proposed regulations would revive Schedule F, allowing 50,000 federal workers to be stripped of civil service protections, making them at-will employees.
OPM's proposal is framed as a means to simplify adverse action procedures, arguing current protections shield underperforming employees.
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