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• MSPB Says It Will Not Hear Appeals of Conversions to Schedule Policy/Career - February 25, 2026

• FEDweek

  The MSPB revoked its own authority to hear appeals from employees to be converted from the competitive service to the excepted service under Schedule Policy/Career, repealing rules it had issued in 2024 to take on that authority.

  The action in a February 23 Federal Register notice is the latest preparatory step toward implementing Schedule P/C, under which career employees involved in making or carrying out policy initially are to be converted to the excepted service and become at-will employees, losing many of their civil service protections.

  Recently published rules finalizing Schedule P/C take effect March 9, by which time President Trump is expected to have approved initial agency proposals for some 50,000 positions to be converted. More could be converted in the future.

  To read the full article, click here.

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