Schedule Policy/Career or Schedule F

Next Steps Taken Toward Launch of ‘Schedule Policy/Career’  By: FEDweek Staff
The Trump administration has taken the next steps toward the launch of a “Schedule Policy/Career” excepted service category as successor to the short-lived and largely unimplemented ‘Schedule F’ of its first term.

Proposed rules for publication in the April 23 Federal Register would erase rules the Biden administration issued last year against converting positions—whether occupied or vacant—involved with policy matters from the competitive service to the excepted service. Biden in early 2021 had revoked Trump’s late-2020 order to do so, an order that Trump in turn revoked early this year with an order to create the somewhat revised Schedule Policy/Career.

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NARFE National President William “Bill” Shackelford released the following statement in response to the Office of Personnel Management’s proposed rule creating Schedule Policy/Career (P/C), formerly referred to as Schedule F, scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on April 23, 2025.