Anne Lofaso, a professor in the University of Cincinnati College of Law, spoke with Bloomberg Law podcast, about the implications of a lawsuit a federal workers union has failed against President Trump over his “Schedule F” executive order which makes it easier to fire federal career employees.
The National Treasury’s Employees Union, which represents federal employees in dozens of agencies, has launched an attack against Schedule F, which would reclassify federal employee jobs. The order could affect 50,000 people. There are just under 3 million people who work for the federal government. It could possibly take away an employee’s due process and union rights, says Lofaso.
“Schedule F is a new classification of employees or sub-classifications that will remove employees currently in competitive service into the excepted service,” explains Lofaso during a segment on the podcast Bloomberg Law. “So there are three main classifications of employees — the competitive service, the excepted service and the senior executive service.”
UC Law Professor Anne Lofaso
“The senior executive service is super political and that’s like cabinet members and the deputy to the general counsel. Those are the ones that have absolutely no job protection and the competitive service has all the job protections and includes almost all federal jobs. That was put in place over a hundred years ago. They were trying to get rid of cronyism that really...
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