{"id":2623,"date":"2026-03-11T08:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:53:24","slug":"employee-groups-revive-lawsuit-to-block-schedule-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/2026\/03\/11\/employee-groups-revive-lawsuit-to-block-schedule-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee groups revive lawsuit to block Schedule F"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/workforce\/2026\/03\/employee-groups-revive-lawsuit-block-schedule-f\/411962\/?oref=ge-homepage-river\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Government Executive article by Erich Wagner on March 6 2026<\/strong><\/a> about a\u00a0coalition of labor unions and other employee advocacy groups say President Trump\u2019s plan to convert around 50,000 federal workers to at-will employees violates federal law, the Constitution and threatens to upend the merit-based civil service.<\/p>\n<p>The groups argue that the imposition of Schedule Policy\/Career would amount to a violation of federal statutes, the Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act\u2019s ban on arbitrary and capricious decision making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of experienced, nonpartisan civil servants will be ushered out of government and replaced by political loyalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/04\/Schedule-F-2025-04-23.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}