Political appointees exempt from new performance evaluations

About this episode

The episode discusses the exclusion of political appointees from new performance evaluations implemented by the Trump administration.

The Trump administration's overhaul of federal employees' performance management won’t apply to political appointees. A memo from the Office of Personnel Management excludes all Schedule C and Schedule G appointees from the stricter performance metrics. OPM says political appointees are already at-will workers, so decisions on whether they should be kept or removed from their jobs do not depend on formal performance evaluations. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Topics covered

• performance management
• political appointees
• federal employees
• Trump administration
• Office of Personnel Management

Keywords

• political appointees
• performance evaluations
• federal employees
• Trump administration
• Office of Personnel Management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Trump administration, Office of Personnel Management, Schedule C, Schedule G

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