Contact Your Officials to Protect the Merit-Based Civil Service!
The Trump Administration finalized a rule to implement its plan to strip more than 50,000 federal employees of critical competitive service protections that ensure firings are based on merit, rather than political affiliation. The final rule creates a new excepted service schedule, Schedule P/C, formerly known as Schedule F, which will lead to the reclassification of tens of thousands of positions into the schedule. The Saving the Civil Service Act, H.R. 492/S. 134, sponsored by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-VA, and the late Rep. Gerry Connolly (now sponsored by Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-VA), would prohibit the implementation of Schedule P/C. If either your representative and/ or senator(s) are not cosponsoring the Saving the Civil Service Act, now is the time to urge them to stand up against corruption!
This link will take you to NARFE’s LAC and provide a letter to send to your senators and representative.
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