The Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service Act would create a new category of federal jobs called Schedule F, allowing federal agencies to hire and fire certain policy-focused employees more easily without following standard competitive hiring or protection procedures. The bill would apply to positions involving policy development, regulation drafting, or other roles with significant influence over agency operations, as long as they are not typically vacated when a new president takes office. Each federal agency head would have 210 days to review their workforce and petition to move existing positions into Schedule F, with the Office of Personnel Management then deciding whether to approve those requests. Employees in Schedule F positions would no longer have the job protections currently available under federal law, making it simpler for agency leadership to remove workers they deem underperforming, though the bill requires agencies to follow veteran preference principles when hiring and maintain rules against prohibited personnel practices. The bill includes no specific funding authorization, as it primarily restructures existing federal employment rules rather than creating new programs.
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