NTEU sues OPM for Schedule F records
The federal employee union said the government’s dedicated HR agency ignored an August Freedom of Information Act request pertaining to which positions agencies plan to convert to the controversial new job classification.
By Erich Wagner, Gov’t Exec., Nov. 17, 2025
The National Treasury Employees Union on Friday filed a federal lawsuit against the Office of Personnel Management, alleging that the federal government’s dedicated HR agency unlawfully ignored a public information request related to the looming implementation of Schedule F.
First devised during Trump’s first term, Schedule F is a new job classification within the government’s excepted service for “policy-related” positions. Since renamed Schedule Policy/Career, the initiative would convert potentially tens of thousands of career federal employees into the new category, effectively making them at-will employees.
Though the first iteration of Schedule F failed to get off the ground before Trump left office in 2021, he quickly signed an executive order reinstating the measure when he returned to the White House last January. OPM issued proposed regulations to implement the new job category in April; the publication of a final rule is expected later this year.
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