Schedule B appointments are
a special type of hiring authority that allows an agency to hire individuals without using ordinarily applicable competitive hiring procedures
.
What is a Schedule C appointee?
A Schedule C position is
a job in a Federal Department or Independent Agency working directly for a Presidential Appointee
or Non-Career official appointed by the Head of the Agency.
What is a Schedule B appointment in the federal government?
Schedule B appointments are
a special type of hiring authority that allows an agency to hire individuals without using ordinarily applicable competitive hiring procedures
.
Schedule A is a special appointing authority that
agencies can use to non-competitively appoint individuals
, including eligible veterans, who have a severe physical, psychiatric, or intellectual disability.
Appointing authority means
a person or a group of persons empowered by the Constitution, statute, or executive order to employ persons in or to make appointments to positions in the civil service
.
What is Schedule B excepted?
Schedule B appointments
are “not practicable to hold a competitive examination”
. Schedule B appointees must meet the qualification standards for the job. As of 2016, there were 36 agency-unique Schedule B hiring authorities. Schedule C appointments are political appointments to confidential or policy-setting positions.
What is Schedule F in the excepted service?
A Schedule F appointment was a job classification in the excepted service of the United States federal civil service that
contains policy-making positions
. It was created by Executive Order 13957 of President Donald Trump on October 21, 2020, less than two weeks before the 2020 elections.
How much do Schedule C appointees make?
Schedule C appointees usually change with each new incoming presidential administration, making them the category of presidential appointments most likely to be handed out as “political favors.” Salaries for Schedule C appointees range
from $67,114 to $155,500.
What is Schedule C federal employee?
Schedule C employees are
those who are excepted from the competitive service
because they have policy-determining responsibilities or are required to serve in a confidential relationship to a key official.
What is a schedule a appointment?
Schedule A is
an appointing authority, or hiring authority
. It is an Excepted Service appointment for persons with disabilities. The regulations guiding the Excepted Service – Appointment of Persons with Disabilities, Career, and Career-Conditional Appointments -are found in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).
What conditions qualify for Schedule A?
You can apply using Schedule A if you are a person with
an intellectual disability, a severe physical disability, or a psychiatric disability
. In order to be selected you will need to show that you meet the qualifications of the job (with or without reasonable accommodation).
A. No. Such an employee remains subject to time-in-grade restrictions.
The VEOA is not a noncompetitive-entry authority
like the VRA where an employee could be given a new appointment at a higher grade.
How do I know if I qualify for VEOA?
To be eligible to be considered, your latest discharge
must be issued under honorable conditions
(honorable or general discharge), AND you must be either: A preference eligible (defined in title 5 U.S.C. 2108(3)), OR. A veteran who substantially completed 3 or more years of active service under honorable conditions.
Appointing authority means
the head of an employing unit authorized by ordinance or City Charter to employ others on behalf of the City
, or a designated management representative. The term includes and can be used interchangeably with department head, department director, superintendent, and chief.
Special appointment authorities may be
used by agencies to appoint specific groups of individuals who meet the respective eligibility requirements to positions in the Federal Government
. … Use of this authority is at the discretion of each agency.
The Secretary-General of the PCA
may be called upon to act as the appointing authority, or to designate another appointing authority, for the appointment of arbitrators under the PCA’s Rules of Procedure, the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, or other rules of procedure.
