Acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek moved to strip thousands of government workers of their civil service protections, leaving career Social Security Administration workers vulnerable to termination.
In an April 7 internal memo, Dudek instructed staff to begin reclassifying SSA employees as Schedule F political appointees, a designation for policy-making roles that redefines workers as at-will employees, who can be fired without "lengthy procedural hurtles."
