OPM aims to ‘clarify, reinforce’ protections against Schedule F, but some experts say it won’t be enough

With concerns growing around a possible return of Schedule F, the Biden administration is taking a step to try to safeguard career federal employees against its potential effects.The Office of Personnel Management issued a proposed rule Friday that seeks to clarify and reinforce merit system principles and other worker protections for career, non-political feds.The rule comes in direct response to the now-revoked Schedule F executive order from the Trump administration. The order sought to move about 50,000 career federal employees in policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating positions to a new job classification outside merit system principles. If implemented, the order would have made these workers at-will and easier to fire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices