Public servants navigate the tension between individual freedoms and public safety, balancing personal liberties with the greater good. This challenging task deserves appreciation beyond special events.
OPM's new performance management criteria aim for rigor and realism, addressing inflated ratings and pass-fail systems. Key issues include political bias, forced rankings, and agency-specific needs.
New merit hiring plan raises concerns about legal imperfections and a return to the spoils era. The plan may cripple workforce planning and invite political influence in hiring.
Unions oppose Trump's Schedule F revival, claiming it threatens civil service protections, enables political retaliation, and undermines objective policy-making. Plan impacts 50,000+ federal workers.
OPM proposes reviving Schedule F, potentially stripping civil service protections from thousands of federal workers in policy-related roles. Critics cite concerns about political influence and job security.
Designed to accommodate clerks processing forms, and then amended in the 1960s to appease federal unions, the civil service system is a rusty industrial age machine disconnected from performance and repellant to highly qualified people.
