Executive Order 14317: Creating Schedule G in the Excepted Service

What the order contains

Section headings exactly as they appear in the official text.

• Sec. 1. Purpose
• Sec. 2. Definition
• Sec. 3. Excepted Service
• Sec. 4. Schedule G
• Sec. 5. Implementation
• Sec. 6. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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The Congress has recognized that effective Government administration requires excepting some positions from the competitive service based on their confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character. Existing excepted service schedules make partial use of this authority. Schedule C of the excepted service authorizes appointments to noncareer excepted service positions of a confidential or policy-determining character. Schedule Policy/Career of the excepted service authorizes appointments to career positions of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character. There is, however, no excepted service schedule for noncareer positions of a policy-making or policy- advocating character. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. […]