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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.
OPM has been recently embroiled in at least a dozen lawsuits raised by people concerned about alleged privacy violations brought by the agency and staffers working in it under Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
The PIA released last week is signed by OPM’s new chief information officer, Greg Hogan, who was quickly installed after the new Trump administration pushed Melvin Brown II, a career federal employee, out of the personnel agency’s CIO role.
The initial suit, filed in the Washington, D.C. District Court by two anonymous federal employees, claims OPM — working with Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency — violated the 2002 E-Government Act by bypassing a required privacy impact assessment, or PIA, before standing up the email platform.