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Schedule Policy/Career: Trust NTEU, But Be Wary of Others

Folks are understandably worried about Schedule Policy/Career, which is a new excepted service schedule that this Administration created on Inauguration Day. With the Office of Personnel Management's issuance of regulations on Schedule P/C in February, we are likely not far from an Executive Order that would officially move thousands of positions to Schedule P/C.

NTEU Fights Back Against OPM’s Attempted Power Grabs

This week, NTEU filed comments opposing the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) proposals to strip federal workers of their right to appeal two types of firings to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB): suitability actions and reductions in force (RIFs). The new proposals would force employees to go to OPM instead of the MSPB to challenge these types of actions. Even worse, both proposals would also remove employees’ right to appeal further to a federal court.