June 10, 2026 marked a critical implementation deadline for federal agencies following President Trump’s June 3 Executive Order expanding the use of Schedule Policy/Career.
The Executive Order reclassifies thousands of senior “policy-influencing” career civil service roles — primarily at the GS‑15 and senior levels — into a new excepted-service category that significantly reduces traditional civil service protections.
The new classification is widely understood as an evolution of the previously proposed Schedule F framework. Schedule F — originally created in 2020, repealed in 2021 and reinstated in 2025 — would allow federal government agencies to reclassify workers, remove certain civil service protections and make them at-will employees, which essentially would make it easier for agencies to fire employees for any reason. Its reiteration, the Schedule Policy/Career classification, could affect thousands of federal employees who could be reclassified under the June 3 Executive Order and may lose key civil service protections.
What the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Says
In response to the Executive Order, a June 8 memorandum from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) states that certain positions as having a “confidential, policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating character” will be placed as positions into Schedule Policy/Career.
The memorandum has renewed attention on efforts to reclassify federal employees in policy-related roles into...
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