Executive agencies
Orders where directed actors are tied to Executive agencies · 3 in Trump 45 · 17 all terms.
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Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service
EO 13957 created a new 'Schedule F' classification for federal career employees in policy-making or confidential roles, moving them from competitive service to excepted service. This allowed agencies to hire and fire these employees more easily without competitive civil service procedures or chapter 75 adverse action protections. The order required agencies to review and petition to reclassify eligible positions within 90 days (preliminary) and 210 days (complete).
Promoting Accountability and Streamlining Removal Procedures Consistent With Merit System Principles
This executive order directs federal agencies to make it easier to remove poor-performing or misconduct-prone civilian employees by streamlining disciplinary procedures, limiting opportunity periods for improvement to 30 days, eliminating requirements for progressive discipline, and restricting union grievance procedures over removals. It mandates data collection on adverse personnel actions and requires OPM to issue implementing regulations and guidance.
Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Appointees
This executive order requires all new executive branch political appointees to sign a binding ethics pledge that imposes lobbying restrictions, gift bans, and recusal requirements. It replaces the Obama-era ethics order with new rules including a 5-year post-employment lobbying ban on the former agency and a ban on lobbying any covered executive branch official for the remainder of the Administration.