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OPM Finalises New Civil-Service Classification for Policy-Influencing Federal Employees

The Office of Personnel Management has established the Schedule Policy/Career category, allowing certain policy-influencing career employees to be removed under different procedures while retaining merit-based hiring and veterans’ preference protections. ([U.S. Office of Personnel Management][17])
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US Markets Rebound After Initial Fed-Hike Selloff as Oil Prices and Treasury Yields Ease
White House Moves to Align Childhood Vaccine Recommendations With Selected Peer-Country Practices
Trump Administration Declares National Emergency Over Foreign Risks to US Bulk-Power Equipment
White House Withdraws Homeland Security Nomination of Richard Schroyer
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