{"id":48163,"date":"2025-07-30T18:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/48163\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T18:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:38:15","slug":"guidance-on-schedule-g-stresses-political-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/48163\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidance on \u2018Schedule G\u2019 Stresses Political Oversight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\tUse of the authority \u201crequires coordination with OPM\u2019s White House Liaison, through OPM\u2019s Executive and Schedule C System (ESCS).”\t\t\t\t\t Image: ChicagoPhotographer\/Shutterstock.com
\n\t\t\t\tBy: FEDweek Staff<\/a><\/p>\n

Guidance on the new \u201cSchedule G<\/a>\u201d category of political appointees stresses the political oversight from OPM and the White House that agencies are to undergo in creating or abolishing such positions.<\/p>\n

That new category fills a \u201cgap\u201d in excepted service authorities since Schedule C only covers excepted service positions of a confidential or policy-determining character, OPM said in a memo at chcoc.gov. No other excepted service category \u201cexisted specifically for noncareer positions of a policy-making or policy-advocating character,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Schedule G is available to all agencies with the authority to make excepted service appointments, it added, while giving no indication of how many such positions should, or could be created.<\/p>\n

However, it states that use of the authority \u201crequires coordination with OPM\u2019s White House Liaison, through OPM\u2019s Executive and Schedule C System (ESCS). ESCS serves as the central intake and approval mechanism for the Schedule G appointing authority at the agency level.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition, approval or withdrawal of the Schedule G appointing authority requires review from the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, through the employing agency\u2019s White House Liaison. As a matter of practice, no Schedule G appointment(s) should be advanced without coordinating with the employing agency\u2019s White House Liaison,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n

That authority was created by an executive order that formally launched the Schedule Policy\/Career category for shifting competitive service employees involved with making or carrying out policy into the excepted service\u2014in the process, losing many of their civil service protections.<\/p>\n

Rules needed to begin such conversions still are pending, as are agency-generated lists of positions to be converted.<\/p>\n

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Primer: Early out, buyout, reduction in force (RIF)<\/a><\/p>\n

2025 Federal Employees Handbook<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Use of the authority \u201crequires coordination with OPM\u2019s White House Liaison, through OPM\u2019s Executive and Schedule C System…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,147,530],"class_list":["post-48163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}