FMA National President Craig Carter stated: “The federal government cannot function effectively without this nonpolitical civil service capable of preserving institutional memory and competence across administrations.”
-Erich Wagner, Government Executive
Unions and other organizations that represent federal employees quickly threw their support behind the Biden administration’s plan to shield the federal workforce from the potential revival of plans to strip thousands of civil servants of their due process protections.
In the waning months of the Trump administration, then-President Trump signed an executive order establishing a new job category within the federal government’s excepted service called Schedule F, for employees in policy-related jobs and exempting those positions from most civil service rules. Employees converted to Schedule F would have become effectively at-will employees.
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Chapter 14 Federal Managers Association is the biggest supporter who pushed this to be introduced to legislation. This primarily affects Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. FMA will support house bill 5995.