The Biden administration is taking steps to strengthen protections for government employees as Republican presidential candidates, including Donald Trump, campaign to shrink the federal workforce. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) outlined efforts to clarify that federal employees cannot lose civil service protections unless they give them up voluntarily. The OPM also aims to prevent certain rules covering political appointees from being misapplied to nonpolitical workers. The proposal would make it tougher to shift federal workers to a classification status that would make it easier to strip them of their civil service protections.

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