https://amgreatness.com/2024/1...-civil-service-jobs/

The Biden regime has quietly revoked the veterans hiring preference for civil service jobs and promotions, which since the 1944 Veterans Act gave eligible veterans preference over others for appointments in federal civil service selection, a memorandum obtained by American Greatness shows.

The goal of the veterans’ preference law was to “provide a uniform method by which qualified veterans [could] receive special consideration for federal employment,” according to Military.com.

By law, veterans who are disabled or who served on active duty during certain specified time periods or in military campaigns are entitled to preference over non-veterans both in hiring from competitive lists and in retention during reductions in force.

New guidelines from the Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Service (DCPAS) now stipulate that “veterans’ preference should be considered on an equal basis as other qualified candidates.”

The week before Thanksgiving, DCPAS Director, Daniel Hester sent civilian personnel the memo in an email detailing an “Extension and Amendment of the Government-wide Direct Hire Appointing Authority for Scientific, Technical, Engineering and Mathematics Positions, Acquisitions, and Cybersecurity and Related Positions.”

“The purpose of this e-Advisory is to provide the widest dissemination on the Extension and Amendment of Government-wide Direct Hire Appointing Authority for STEM, Acquisitions, and Cybersecurity Positions,” the memo states.

Direct Hire Authority (DHA) is an appointing authority that allows federal agencies to expedite the hiring process for positions where there is a critical hiring need or severe shortage of candidates. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has extended and amended the Government-wide Direct Hire Authority (DHA) for critical STEM, acquisitions, and cybersecurity roles, allowing expedited hiring for positions with severe candidate shortages. This authority supports the Department of the Air Force’s (DAF) goal to attract top talent to key mission-critical roles. OPM has identified STEM, acquisitions, and cybersecurity roles as critical hiring needs, warranting the extension of direct hiring authorities to streamline recruitment and reduce hiring timelines. New amendments to the DHA also expand coverage to include criminal investigation and data science positions at specific grade levels. This hiring flexibility enables federal agencies to bypass standard competitive procedures to fill positions urgently needed for federal operations.

The memorandum states that under the updated authorities, “individuals may be appointed to competitive service career, career-conditional, term, or temporary position, without
applying veterans’ preference and competitive rating and ranking procedures at the grade levels.”

A source from the U.S. Air Force told American Greatness: “This is government-wide hiring ramped up like never before seen. They are literally packing the federal workforce with as many loyalists and subversives as they can. Worst of all, they think it is their duty to do so.”

He added: “Since DEI is getting pettifogged rather harshly (and rightly so) this is yet another way they can worm into the bureaucracy—at the expense of veterans.”

The source told American Greatness that “veterans are being cast aside for this new workforce (wokeforce).”

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This article (and resulting thread title) is grossly misleading, and the article's author clearly has zero knowledge of how the federal hiring system works.

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

Direct Hire Authority job postings have always been exempt from veteran preference. This isn't anything new. It's been around for many decades.

DHA job postings skip the typical convoluted federal point rating and ranking process, and is intended as a mechanism to allow hiring managers with especially high need positions to fill these slots more quickly in a more streamlined process based moreso on their judgement of applicants' qualifications. Just like how nearly all non-governmental hiring operates.

5 U.S.C. § 3304 is the part of federal law that outlines the federal government's usual ponderous hiring process, but it allows for exceptions to be granted in cases of "critical hiring needs". This exception is DHA, and it's only granted on a limited basis.

DHA is usually granted in cases of federal jobs in technical fields facing severe shortages, as seems to be the case here too, considering the referenced memo is about newly authorized DHA postings "for Scientific, Technical, Engineering and Mathematics Positions, Acquisitions, and Cybersecurity and Related Positions.”

But the majority of federal job openings are not authorized DHA, and veterans preference still applies to all these non-DHA job postings that use the slower and more complicated typical points system.

Besides, veterans can still apply to any of these DHA-eligible positions too, they just have to compete against other applicants on the merits of their skills and experience alone rather than getting preferential ranking.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
This article (and resulting thread title) is grossly misleading, and the article's author clearly has zero knowledge of how the federal hiring system works.

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

Spot-on. DHA is a hiring flexibility that OPM grants like it's their only daughter's virtue.

Vets aren't getting screwed with this.

The amount of pop-up advertising turned me off I didn't even get a chance to read the article...

I have to ask - did Mr Biden ever serve in his nation's Armed Forces?

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Originally posted by tacfoley:
I have to ask - did Mr Biden ever serve in his nation's Armed Forces?

Nope. He received five student draft deferments while attending college during the early Vietnam War era, before eventually being deemed medically ineligible anyway, reportedly due to a history of asthma.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:

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Originally posted by tacfoley:
I have to ask - did Mr Biden ever serve in his nation's Armed Forces?

Nope. He received five student draft deferments while attending college during the early Vietnam War era, before eventually being deemed medically ineligible anyway, reportedly due to a history of asthma.

Figures.

My view, that counts for SFA, is that any politician who sends his country to war ought by rights to have had first-hand experience of doing it.

Or if 'excused', he should send his first-born son or, these days, daughter, to the front line. In the event that he has no progeny, he should have his right hand severed as an act of earnest.

That is the worst kind of click-bait, fake news article. It is written to enrage and drive readers and clicks.

Don't believe what you read because it confirms what you would like to believe.