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Please see the attached comments from Environmental Defense Fund ("EDF") regarding U.S. Office of Personnel Management's Proposed Rule, "Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service," 90 Fed. Reg. 17,182 (Apr. 23, 2025).
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduct. The proposed rule lets policy-influencing positions be moved into Schedule Policy/Career. These positions will remain career jobs filled on a nonpartisan basis. Yet they will be at-will positions excepted from adverse action procedures or appeals. This will allow agencies to quickly remove employees from critical positions who engage in misconduct, perform poorly, or undermine the democratic process by intentionally subverting Presidential directives.
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