On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the news on social media with great fanfare. Separately, he announced that the DOT will be creating a new classification for their career employees: “schedule policy/career.” This move pairs the employees’ day-to-day work with the administration’s larger policy priorities. Perhaps more importantly, it directly addresses the needs of those charged with stewarding policy issues.
The announcement represents a change in how career government employees will be classified. With the new classification, these workers will now have an official title of “schedule policy/career.” This latter change is meant to provide the new civil service employees with the freedom to continue to uphold the priorities established by each president’s administration.
The U.S. federal government’s human resources management agency will be first in line in rolling out this new classification. Now the agency has to work with OPM in amending rules for civil service employees to establish them as senior executives. This action is intended to improve the alignment between the skills of the administration’s workforce and the enterprise-level goals of the administration.
The “schedule policy/career” designation will only impact those employees who are working on important policy-creating fronts. Through the new classification, the administration is seeking to build a workforce that better fits its overall ambitions. We hope this pilot initiative will help encourage that cooperation and lead to greater success.
This announcement is an exciting and unusual turn of events in the ever-shifting landscape of federal employment, especially for all you policy wonks out there. The amendment is a part of a larger effort to expand presidential control over civil service activities and functions.
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