{"id":793,"date":"2025-02-07T19:45:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T19:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/?p=793"},"modified":"2025-02-08T20:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T20:59:19","slug":"narfe-protects-federal-civil-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/2025\/02\/07\/narfe-protects-federal-civil-service\/","title":{"rendered":"NARFE Sues to Protect Federal Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE, the National Active and Retired Federal Employees,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/02\/ProtectDemocracy-Lawsuit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> leads the fight against illegal assaults<\/strong><\/a> on Civil Service protections. NARFE has a long tradition of defending the earned benefits of federal employees and annuitants, and now protects democracy itself. A lawsuit was filed by NARFE and the Government Accountability Project \u201cchallenging the Trump Administration\u2019s attempt to dismantle a cornerstone of American democracy: a federal civil service rooted in merit and integrity.\u201d The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/02\/Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit alleges<\/a><\/strong> that implementing Executive Order 14171 would make it easier to gut the civil service and replace them with partisans, a clear violation of the intent of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_Service_Reform_Act_of_1978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil Service Reform Act of 1978<\/a><\/strong>. This act was the first civil service reform since the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pendleton_Civil_Service_Reform_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pendleton Act of 1883<\/a><\/strong>, which \u201cmandates that most positions within the <a title=\"Federal government of the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_government_of_the_United_States\">federal government<\/a> should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political patronage.\u201d NARFE, founded in 1921, continues to lead the fight in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE joins lawsuit to protect merit-based federal civil service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/01\/NARFE-monogram-logo-rgb-sm.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}