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    OPM’s New Performance Management Criteria: Good Step?

    OPM’s New Performance Management Criteria: Good Step?

    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.


    Merit Hiring Plan: Spoils Era Return?

    Merit Hiring Plan: Spoils Era Return?

    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.


    Federal Workers’ Rights: Unions Fight Schedule F Revival

    Federal Workers’ Rights: Unions Fight Schedule F Revival

    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 Revives Schedule F: Federal Job Security at Risk

    OPM Revives Schedule F: Federal Job Security at Risk

    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.


    Does Trump have the right idea about dismantling the Deep State?

    Does Trump have the right idea about dismantling the Deep State?

    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.