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United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions (more commonly referred to as the Plum Book) is a book that lists positions in the United States government that are subject to political appointment. It lists around 8,000 federal civil service leadership and support positions in the legislative and executive branches of the federal ...
Director – Community Relations Service (four-year term of office) Director – Federal Bureau of Investigation (10-year term of office) Director – Office on Violence Against Women; Director – United States Marshals Service; Inspector General; Special Counsel – Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (four-year term of office)
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The patronage system thrived in the U.S. federal government until 1883. In 1820 Congress limited federal administrators to four-year terms, which led to constant turnover; by the 1860s and the Civil War, patronage had led to widespread inefficiency and political corruption. Although it used to be confined to cabinet positions, department heads ...
The 1978 act abolished the United States Civil Service Commission and created the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) and the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). The OPM primarily provides management guidance to the agencies of the executive branch and issues regulations that control ...
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is instructing agencies that they do not have to fire all federal employees still on probation but is encouraging them to remove any low performers.
Fannie Mae, or the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) Freddie Mac, or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC) The National Gallery of Art; The Smithsonian Institution (SI) is an independent establishment of the United States created by an act of Congress on August 10, 1846. The SI conducts scientific and scholarly research ...
The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is an independent agency of the United States government that manages the United States federal civil service.The agency provides federal human resources policy, oversight, and support, and tends to healthcare (), life insurance (), and retirement benefits (CSRS and FERS, but not TSP) for federal government employees, retirees, and their ...