The Office of Personnel Management plans to repeal several Trump administration workforce policies focused on making it easier to fire federal employees and discipline poor performers.
OPM, in a notice that will be published in the Federal Register, is looking to repeal a number of Trump administration policies, one of which prevents agencies from removing or changing information in a federal employee’s personnel record as part of a settlement agreement.
OPM said it would rescind the Trump administration’s prohibition on these so-called “clean record” agreements after receiving “continued objections” over the policy.
The policies stem from one of three executive orders former President Donald Trump signed in May 2018 focused on the federal workforce.
OPM will accept comments on its proposed rule through Feb. 3. It expects the proposed rule change will impact more than 80 federal agencies, from cabinet-level departments to small, independent agencies.
President Joe Biden, just days after taking office, repealed the Trump administration’s workforce executive orders. OPM, in the following months, issued new guidance to agencies detailing the steps to immediately repeal the Trump orders.
OPM said agencies had a “limited opportunity” to implement the Trump-era federal workforce policies, but is looking planning to further remove any impact the repealed EO still has on the federal workforce regulations.
That includes a final rule OPM issued in November 2020, outlining federal workforce policy changes under the now-repealed Trump executive order.
Source: Federal News Network
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