{"id":1286,"date":"2025-06-10T14:17:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2025-06-10T14:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:17:55","slug":"opms-proposed-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/2025\/06\/10\/opms-proposed-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"OPM\u2019s Proposed Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/09\/narfe-submits-official-comment-on-opms-proposed-rule-to-undermine-more-than-140-years-of-civil-service-reform\/?_zs=rk6mm&amp;_zl=7RTM3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>published a statement<\/strong><\/a> on Office of Personnel Management\u2019s (OPM) Proposed Rule \u201cImproving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service,\u201d 90 Fed. Reg. 17182 (April 23, 2025). NARFE President Bill Shackelford addresses major concern that civilian government positions will be converted from non-partisan to political positions allowing firing at the whim of the current and future administrations.<\/p>\n<p>NARFE is not the only organization concerned with this issue.\u00a0 Check this article by the Democracy Forward: <a href=\"https:\/\/democracyforward.org\/updates\/schedulef-comment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>More than 115 Organizations Urge Trump-Vance Administration: Don\u2019t Politicize the Civil Service.<\/strong> <\/a>Proposed Rule Would Undermine Civil Service Protections and Enable Political Retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you are a current civilian employee or a retired federal employee this should concern you.\u00a0 These conversions would be decision makers throughout agencies that decide your related benefits.\u00a0 Decisions would be made based on politics and not what is the best for the employee and retiree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do Not Politicize the Civil Service. Here is information on this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/04\/Schedule-F-2025-04-23.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}