Joe Biden’s Office of Personnel Management took a big step Thursday toward preventing a new Trump administration from uprooting a hostile and disloyal federal civilian workforce. In a notice published in the Federal Register, OPM effectively killed the concept of a “Schedule F” employee created by President Trump during his first term’s waning hours. That classification covering policy-related positions would have involuntarily reclassified tens of thousands of civil service employees from essentially tenured positions with significant employment protections to a new category of “at will” employment.
The order would create a new Schedule F within the excepted service of the federal government, to be composed of “employees in confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions,” and instructs agency heads to determine which current employees fit this…
