The Office of Personnel Management on Tuesday issued guidance for handling a new class of federal workers who will be more subject to the will of the White House.
Dubbed “Schedule G” employees, the class will increase the number of political appointees in policy-related positions who are exempt from traditional civil service requirements and protections.
“Schedule G brings needed flexibility to the process of appointing non-career policy roles across government, to
ensure key policy-determining and policy-advocating positions are staffed in alignment with the administrationʼs priorities,” OPM Director Scott Kupor said in a statement.
The one-page guidance issued Tuesday elaborates on President Donald Trump’s signing of Executive Order 14317 on July 17, which created the Schedule G classification.
