Upholding Civil Service Protections and Merit System Principles

21 organizations filed 22 public comments on Upholding Civil Service Protections and Merit System Principles, at the OPM. The comment window closed 984d ago.

Abstract

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) plans to finalize a rule to uphold civil service protections and merit system principles after consideration of comments on OPM’s proposal. OPM proposed to clarify that employees who are moved involuntarily from the competitive to the excepted service, or from one excepted service schedule to another, retain the status and adverse action rights they had at the time of movement. OPM’s proposal also required federal agencies to follow specific procedures upon moving any employees without their consent from the competitive service to the excepted service or, if already in the excepted service, to a different excepted service schedule. Finally, OPM proposed to define positions of a "confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character," in accordance with legislative history and Congressional intent, to mean political appointments. Petitions from the National Treasury Employees Union and the Federal Workers Alliance informed the development of the proposed rule.

Commenters (21)

• America First Policy Institutetrade assoc.

  2 filings · confidence 85%
• AFL-CIO

  1 filing · confidence 97%
• Coalition of Public Interest Organizationstrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%
• Coalition to Protect America's National Parkstrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%
• Democracy Forward Foundationtrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%
• Federal Managers Associationtrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%
• Federation of American Scientists (FAS)trade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 97%
• IFPTE Judicial Council 1trade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%
• International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineerstrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%
• Jacobs Institute of Women's Healthtrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%
• Landmark Legal Foundationtrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%
• National Active and Retired Federal Employees Associationtrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%
• National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneystrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%
• National Employment Lawyers Associationtrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%
• National Treasury Employees Unionunverified attribution

  1 filing · confidence 70%
• Partnership for Public Servicetrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%
• Professional Managers Associationtrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%
• Senior Executives Associationtrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%
• The Volcker Alliancetrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%
• Union of Concerned Scientistsunverified attribution

  1 filing · confidence 70%
• Wisconsin Council of Churchestrade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 85%