NASA Employees: Has Management Told You If You Are Schedule F?
Congress won’t block Trump’s order to strip civil service protections from many federal workers, Washington Post
“The bill is silent regarding an executive order issued just before the election that would change the status of federal employees whose work involves making or carrying out policy or giving confidential advice to top officials. Under the order, they could be dismissed with little cause or recourse, much like the political appointees who come and go with each administration, and competition would no longer be required when filling such jobs. Federal agencies have been working to complete lists of such positions ahead of a Jan. 19 deadline — the day before President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated — for conversion into a new category of positions to be called “Schedule F.”
– NASA Employees: Beware Of Schedule F – And Burrowing
– Civil Servants Are Going To Lose Protections, earlier post
– Executive Order on Creating Schedule F In The Excepted Service, White House
Is there anything that would keep this from being undone on January 20?
(Many actions “done with a pen” can be as easily undone, but others are, for various administrative reasons, much more difficult to undo.)
Here in DC speculation is all over the map as to whether they will go through with this, whether agencys will stall, whether Biden will simply rescind it at 1:00 pm on 20 Jan 2021.
I think they’ll just stall on the implementation until Biden gets in office. That will save money on having to reinstate the affected employees to their previous status after January 20.
As an employee can you appeal being moved to schedule F or once you get out on it you just have to be on your beat behavior to not get fired? Is something they would do on individual basis or via group reclassification like say all program X series 801 are now schedule F. Nasa watch seems to be the only one talking about this and I admit I don’t full grasp the full repercussions of this policy.