Schedule F

President Trump signed an executive order to eliminate merit-based civil service protections from as many as 50,000 or more federal employees. In the order, Trump reinstated a new excepted service schedule, Schedule F (or Schedule Policy/Career), and began the process of reclassifying a significant number of employees into this new excepted service category, removing the protection of merit-based civil service rules that require hiring and firing based on merit, rather than political affiliation or otherwise. NARFE opposes Schedule F and supports the Saving the Civil Service Act, H.R.492/S.134, to prohibit a return of Schedule F.

Additional information on Schedule F (or Schedule Policy/Career) and other information can be found on our national website under the Advocacy tab, Emerging Threats to the Federal Community. Background information is also available on the Fedweek and the Government Executive websites.