Salary Council Chairman Resigns in Protest of Trump Order Politicizing Federal Workforce
Ron Sanders, a key ally in the administrations efforts to reform the civil service pay structure, said he cannot be party to an attempt to require the political loyalty of federal workers.
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The order instructs agencies to identify which positions qualify as policy-making and transfer existing career workers into the new job classification, stripping them of their civil service protections and making them effectively
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On its surface, the presidents executive order purports to serve a legitimate and laudable purposethat is, to hold career federal employees more accountable for their performance, Sanders wrote. That is something that I have spent most of my professional lifealmost four decades in federal service (over 20 as a member of the Senior Executive Service)trying to do. However, it is clear that its stated purpose withstanding,
the executive order is nothing more than a smokescreen for what is clearly an attempt to require the political loyalty of those who advise the president, or failing that, to enable their removal with little if any due process. -
Government Executive
The evil just never stops!