OPM Finalizes Schedule Policy/Career Rule to Enhance Federal Workforce Accountability

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced the final rule establishing Schedule Policy/Career in the excepted service, a civil service reform implementing Executive Order 14171. This rule aims to strengthen accountability and improve performance for policy-influencing positions, ensuring officials responsible for advancing the President's agenda can be held to performance expectations, while explicitly prohibiting political patronage or discrimination.