F is for "you're fired."
Seasons Greetings.

what if these people are hired under the bargaining unit position?

Anonymous wrote:Trump rescinds the OPM regulations that Biden's OPM recently passed to protect employees, then designates as Schedule F, and then terminates. It is unlikely those people would win an injunction keeping them in their jobs so the litigation happens while they are not working and then they get damages or are reinstated years later.

Why do you think an injunction is unlikely?

Trump rescinds the OPM regulations that Biden's OPM recently passed to protect employees, then designates as Schedule F, and then terminates. It is unlikely those people would win an injunction keeping them in their jobs so the litigation happens while they are not working and then they get damages or are reinstated years later.

Anonymous wrote:I understand the plan would require politically-appointed agency heads to identify career-level policy-makers for conversion to Schedule F, an EO that purports to legally strip civil servants of the employment protections that were part of their original job conditions, making them subject to firing at-will. But how do you strip employment protections from career employees without everything being held up in court by massive, years-long litigation? The employment conditions are largely ensured in federal statutes and regulations that cannot be changed easily or quickly, and there would be great legal arguments that they can’t be stripped away from those hired while those rules were in place, no? Someone explain how this happens within 4 years please.

You don't, but as a PP said, if you find a friendly venue - Aileen Cannon, the douchebag in Amarillo, TX who says they think you will eventually prevail and refuse to put an injunction in place, and they can start the process. And then every person whose job is on that list knows that their time for scrutiny is coming. It creates chaos, fear, destroys morale, etc. And eventually, if the Trump friendly Supreme Court, who has already ruled that a President is pretty much a king, decides that it's legal, then it's game over.

I think the concern is the actions would be carried out and until the court cases settled, you'd have to live with them. Maybe years down the line there would (or wouldn't depending on how things go) be a righting of wrongs.

nobody knows. it’s not worth worrying about since nobody knows. just live your life.

-15 year Fed

I hope you are right. God help us otherwise.

I understand the plan would require politically-appointed agency heads to identify career-level policy-makers for conversion to Schedule F, an EO that purports to legally strip civil servants of the employment protections that were part of their original job conditions, making them subject to firing at-will. But how do you strip employment protections from career employees without everything being held up in court by massive, years-long litigation? The employment conditions are largely ensured in federal statutes and regulations that cannot be changed easily or quickly, and there would be great legal arguments that they can’t be stripped away from those hired while those rules were in place, no? Someone explain how this happens within 4 years please.