{"id":943,"date":"2026-02-11T18:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/?p=943"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:56:21","slug":"schedule-p-c-threatens-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/2026\/02\/11\/schedule-p-c-threatens-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Schedule P\/C Threatens Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Personnel Management finalized its rule to create Schedule Policy\/Career (P\/C), which allows the reclassification of 50,000 or more federal positions into excepted service, without protections against politically motivated terminations. NARFE National President William Shackelford issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/05\/narfe-schedule-p-c-threatens-integrity-of-our-democracy\/?_zs=IQofm&amp;_zl=cnue3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NARFE\u2019s statement<\/strong><\/a>, which opposes this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/news\/news-releases\/opm-finalizes-schedule-policycareer-rule-to-strengthen-accountability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>final rule<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#federalemployees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Personnel Management finalized its rule to create Schedule Policy\/Career (P\/C), which allows the reclassification of 50,000 or more federal positions into excepted service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2026\/02\/2019-06-13-narfe-main-logo.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}