Some career federal employees whose work involves making policy will no longer be hired under competitive procedures. They would lose the civil service protections that protect them from ever being fired. Also, they will no longer be union. This comes about with an executive order that President Trump issued Wednesday.
The order would shift those employees from what is called the âcompetitive service,â which covers most of the 2.1 million executive branch employees, into the âexcepted service.â In general, expected service applies to political appointees below the level requiring Senate confirmation.
These are the swamp critters determining our policies without any accountability. This will make them accountable.
THEY CAN FIRE THE LOSERS
Trump said his order will âgive agencies greater ability and discretion to assess critical qualities in applicants to fill these positions, such as work ethic, judgment, and ability to meet the particular needs of the agency.â
They will be kept based on performance and will no longer be a protected class.
Among career employees, the âexcepted serviceâ mainly applies to positions in which it is not practical to use competitive processes in hirings. It includes administrative law judges and attorneys. Employees of some entire agencies, such as intelligence agencies, also are in the excepted service.
Agencies are not required to post excepted service vacancies on the central USAJobs.gov recruiting site, although some do. They need not use rating systems required when hiring for competitive service jobs. Also, there is no formal preference for veterans. Unless they are veterans, excepted service employees do not gain appeal rights until after two years of employment, rather than the standard one year.
The order tells agencies to conduct an initial review within three months, and a full review within seven months. It strikes hard a to reducing the huge number of political appointments.
Then, agencies are to ask the Office of Personnel Management to move those positions into a newly created category of the excepted service. There is a list of âprohibited personnel practicesâ such as discrimination and nepotism would continue to apply to them.â
THOSE AFFECTED
While not defining which occupations would be affected, such duties would include development or advocacy of policy; involvement with writing regulations and guidance; work in an agency component that primarily focuses on policy; supervision of attorneys; work in the agencyâs executive secretariat; conducting negotiations with employee unions; or work that includes âsubstantial discretion to determine the manner in which the agency exercises functions committed to the agency by law.â
There are your career bureaucrats who run things from the swamp.
As expected, the union is angry.
This is only helpful if someone is willing to fire these corrupt swampers.
Welcome to the free market apparatchik comrades. Only the banks are too big to fail.
Been predicting for at least the past year, soon as Pres Trump enters his 2nd term, EXPECT a house cleaning like weâve NEVER seen before.
It will be a Saturday Night massacre 6 days a week, twice on Sunday.
Please!
Double please !!
Triple please!!
From an outsiders point of view that move would be fantastic to see because long term countries like AUS would benefit by hopefully finding the strength to do the same to our over reaching bureacrats.
Go Trump MAGA
It needs to happen if our country is to survive as a Republic and not a third world country, the swamp is dug in so very deep and needs to be eradicated.
Most of the Kazakh Americans are the descendants of the refugees who fled from the Stalin Great Famine and political suppression under the USSR’s communist rule. We are very much alike Cuban Americans and Vietnamese Americans . Over two million Kazakhs died in the Stalin Famine and hundreds of thousands of Kazakh intellectuals and social elites died under Stalin’s Great… Read more Âğ
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ERIC, If I May jump in here for what itâs worth. The 1st amendment guarantees, even AHoles like Sacha Cohen, the right to make disgusting, obnoxious movies. Itâs up,to WeThePpl to REJECT such nauseating behaviors by keeping our wallets shut. Only thing that NEEDS changing, the IGNORING of the PC PERPETUALLY Offended Snowflakes. THEY need to be treated like an… Read more Âğ
Thank you Judyann
There’s no indication so I’m curious whether this applies to SES, the true Shadow Government, which is the class of civil servants that keep Administrations from implementing policy. They are basically those who have power and control over departments. It has become one of the worst pieces of legislation ever passed.
SES employees are not protected civil service positions. They have their own rules.
That’s what I assumed. There has been a great deal of articles on the matter. At the time the legislation was written, in the 70’s I believe, it “sounded” like a good idea but has turned out to be a case of unintended consequences.
Don’t think it applies to SES, per Military Times article on this same subject.
Dear M.Dowlingïĵcan I expect another good article like these from you about the Borat film coming out recently ? ïĵwhich was described by the leftist media as ârevealing how fundamentally racist America under Trump administration isâ I am a Kazakh voter and we are very offended by this movieïĵI am still wondering why such an unfunny and offensive movie made… Read more Âğ
Eric—find a friendly (Kazakh?) Lawyer and file a class action discrimination suit against Borat, et. Al. Force them to defend their demeaning movie and see how many leftists drop him like a rock.
If nothing else the settlement money would help worthy charities supporting Kazakhstan….
Good Luck!
Many American would support you, we find him pretty offensive as well.
Thank you dear friendïĵadvice takenïĵI’ll work on it
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