The Trump administration released guidance on the classification formerly known as Schedule F, calling for redetermination of policy-influencing positions.
A new memo from the Office of Personnel Management lays out descriptions for jobs that could be removed from the “competitive” service.
A memo asked agencies to provide a justification for providing relocation benefits to employees who live more than 50 miles from worksites.
The Office of Personnel Management is looking to open a direct line of communication to the federal workforce.
The White House will give agencies two weeks to plan for the return of federal workers to the office, implementing an order President Donald Trump signed on the first day of his term to end Covid-era work-from-home accommodations.
Agencies have until April 20 to recommend federal employee positions to be converted into the new “Policy/Career” classification, according to an OPM memo.
New guidance gives federal agencies 90 days to do a preliminary review of jobs that are "policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating."
Agency heads have until Feb. 7 to deliver implementation plans, which should include details on revised telework and collective bargaining agreements.
Amanda Scales, a former employee of Elon Musk’s AI company, was recently tapped to be the chief of staff at OPM.
Sources said the White House has discussed testing a message system where President Donald Trump could message the federal government's 2 million civilian employees.
During an unscheduled stop on the casino floor at Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday, President Donald Trump said he might terminate the contracts of thousands of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) workers, referring to debunked claims that the agency has hired 88,000 enforcement agents to go after taxpayers in the past few years.
The Trump administration is gathering a list of career positions that should lose job protections, including staffers who evaluate grant applications, write agency budget requests, and interact with the media,