The Trump administration is taking one other step towards inserting extra political appointees into senior positions throughout the federal authorities.
This time, the Workplace of Personnel Administration’s targets are senior human relations positions stuffed by profession officers, together with their supposed position in serving to implement the Biden administration’s “variety, fairness, inclusion and accessibility” insurance policies which might be opposed by President Donald Trump.
In a memo dated Thursday, OPM’s performing director, Charles Ezell, instructed all division heads and performing heads to undergo the company by March 24 a proper request that any chief human capital officer (CHCO) whose place is designated as “profession reserved” be reclassified to permit “the place to be stuffed by both a profession or non-career official.”
Ezell wrote within the overview part of the memo that the transfer is required “to make sure correct and constant classification” of those senior government service, or SES, positions.
