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 “competitive service,” which covers most of the 2.1 million executive branch employees, into the “excepted service.” 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 “give 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.”
They will be kept based on performance and will no longer be a protected class.
Among career employees, the “excepted service” 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.
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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 “prohibited personnel practices” such as discrimination and nepotism would continue to apply to them.”
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 agency’s executive secretariat; conducting negotiations with employee unions; or work that includes “substantial discretion to determine the manner in which the agency exercises functions committed to the agency by law.”
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 we’ve 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 Purge. That’s why we have heartfelt love for American Liberty and the American way of life. Now the Leftists are threatening to take that away from us,and the so-called “racism” is their tool to achieve this goal . It’s outrageous and hypocritical when they claim to fight against racism and make racist films at the same time.It’s beyond logic.
https://www.turkkon.org/en/haberler/message-of-the-turkic-council-secretary-general-on-the-occasion-of-the-day-of-remembrance-of-the-victims-of-political-repressions_2019
ERIC, If I May jump in here for what it’s worth.
The 1st amendment guarantees, even AHoles like Sacha Cohen, the right to make disgusting, obnoxious movies. It’s 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 allergy for which the only cure is constant exposure to the offending agent. Give them a heaping helping of everything that offends them.
As for anything Sasha Cohen produces, hopefully he will go too far with his filth and get the crap sued out of him. There’s nothing like punitive damages wiping out his bank account for a sure cure
If Cohen’s movie gets off the shelf and is worthy of note, I’m sure Ms Dowling will address it. She doesn’t miss anything.
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Thank you Judyann