NTEU has filed a petition with EPA asking it to issue regulations that would expand protections against prohibited personnel practices to more employees.
Prohibited personnel practices include personnel actions motivated by discrimination, reprisal, political coercion, improper influence, or obstruction of rights. Competitive service employees and many excepted service employees are protected by statute against such wrongful practices. Some excepted service employees, however, are not protected. Employees covered by a possible future Schedule F Executive Order would not have such protections. NTEU’s petition asks EPA to protect such employees by promulgating new regulations.
This is part of NTEU’s multi-front effort to address the many potential harms that a future Schedule F Executive Order would cause. We will press EPA to do the right thing and grant this petition to protect employees.