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Executive Order 14410

Implementing Schedule Policy/Career in the Excepted Service

This executive order implements Schedule Policy/Career in the excepted service by transferring specified senior policy-influencing positions from the competitive service, exempting them from standard adverse-action procedures while retaining merit-based hiring. It amends Civil Service Rules and prior executive orders to effectuate these transfers, directs agencies to notify affected employees within 7 days, and establishes performance award mechanisms for Schedule Policy/Career employees.

Federal Register Open PDF 91 FR 34893

Impact dates

  1. OPM Director initiates rulemaking for Presidential award program for Schedule Policy/Career employees

  2. 18d ago

    OPM Director prepares and issues revisions to obsolete Civil Service Rules provisions

  3. Agency heads notify affected employees of Schedule Policy/Career placement and conform records

Key directives

  • Transfer positions listed in Appendix to Schedule Policy/Career of excepted service
  • Amend Civil Service Rules I, III, VI, XI and 5 CFR 550.703, 550.704(b)
  • Amend EO 13957 (as amended by EO 14171) and EO 13562 (as amended by EO 14217)
  • Agency heads shall set aside separate bonus pool for Schedule Policy/Career performance awards
  • OPM Director shall initiate rulemaking for Presidential award program under 5 U.S.C. 4504 and 4506
  • Agency heads shall notify affected employees and conform records within 7 days of order date
  • OPM Director shall remove/update obsolete Civil Service Rules provisions within 60 days
  • Agency heads shall petition OPM Director to recommend additional positions for Schedule Policy/Career placement

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • Agency heads must notify affected employees of Schedule Policy/Career placement within 7 days
  • Agency heads must conform records to reflect changes within 7 days

Near term (90d)

  • OPM Director must prepare and issue revisions to remove/update obsolete Civil Service Rules provisions within 60 days
  • OPM Director must promptly initiate rulemaking for Presidential award program for Schedule Policy/Career employees

Long term

  • Potential expansion as agency heads petition to place additional competitive service/Schedule A/B/D positions into Schedule Policy/Career
  • Structural shift in federal employment protections for policy-influencing roles
  • Merit-based hiring procedures for Schedule Policy/Career to be prescribed by OPM

Risks & tensions

  • Removal of adverse-action protections may face legal challenges from employee unions or affected civil servants
  • Vague 'as far as administratively feasible' language for veteran preference in Schedule Policy/Career hiring creates implementation uncertainty
  • Large Appendix (pages 34896-35120) suggests mass reclassification affecting thousands of positions but specific scope not verifiable from excerpted text
  • Potential tension between merit-based hiring claims and increased presidential control over policy-influencing positions
  • Rulemaking timeline for Presidential award program unspecified beyond 'promptly'
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