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Trump Looks to Strip Policy-Making Employees of Civil-Service Rights

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 11/2/20

Hundreds of thousands of Federal employees stand to lose their civil-service rights due to an executive order signed by President Trump Oct. 21.

It shifts "career positions in the Federal service of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character" into a new Schedule F category that would be exempt from "the competitive hiring rules and examinations for career positions in the Federal service."

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