Source: International Business Times
The Social Security Administration is moving to reclassify a swathe of employees to Schedule F "political appointees," stripping them of civil service protections and leaving career employees vulnerable to employment termination unrelated to job performance. Acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek moved to strip thousands of government workers of their civil service protections, leaving career Social Security Administration workers vulnerable to termination. In an April 7 internal memo, Dudek instructed staff to begin reclassifying SSA employees as Schedule F political appointees, a designation for policy-making roles that redefines workers as at-will employees, who can be fired without "lengthy procedural hurtles.
