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NTEU Sues Treasury and HHS Over Thousands of Stalled Accommodation Requests
Federal employees waiting on disability accommodation requests at the IRS, HHS, or CDC just got some backing. On Monday, the National Treasury Employees Union sued the Treasury Dep...
Probationary Firings and Federal Appeal Rights
For probationary federal employees, the past year has carried an unmistakable message: early-career service can feel precarious even when the government says it wants to recruit ne...
Schedule Policy/Career and Whistleblower Rights
For federal employees moved into Schedule Policy/Career, the most important question is not simply whether protections still exist. It is whether those protections can be meaningfu...
Federal NDAs and Whistleblower Rights
Reports that some federal employees in the Trump administration have been asked to sign broad nondisclosure agreements raise a serious but often misunderstood question: what can an...
Political Pressure on Federal Case Settlements
Federal employees depend on legal systems that are supposed to be neutral: the Merit Systems Protection Board, the EEO process, whistleblower protections, and related settlement me...
Federal EEO and MSPB Settlements Under Scrutiny
House Oversight Chairman James Comer has opened an inquiry into why the federal government pays to resolve so many federal employee grievances, pointing to federal-sector EEO and M...
EEOC Bias Concerns and Your EEO Case
Federal employees are taught to trust the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) process as a neutral pathway for resolving discrimination claims. But recent reporting raises a harder ...
Reasonable Accommodation Delays as Legal Denials
Federal employees are often told to “be patient” after submitting a reasonable accommodation request. But the law does not grant agencies unlimited time. Under the Rehabilitation A...
Religious Harassment in Federal Workplaces
Religious expression has long existed in federal workplaces, but recent reports suggest a shift in tone and source. When religious messaging originates from agency leadership—Secre...
DEI Reassignments and Federal Employee Rights
Recent developments at the Interior Department highlight a pattern federal employees should understand. Dozens of employees who spent more than a year on involuntary paid administr...
Southworth PC Expands Support for Federal Employees
For federal employees facing discipline, probationary removal, EEO retaliation, or abrupt policy shifts, the quality of legal representation can change the course of a career. That...
AWOL Threats and Telework Accommodation Rights
If you’re being told, “Report in-person or you’ll be marked AWOL,” pause—but do not panic.
AWOL (Absent Without Leave) is often the pivot point where a disability accommodation di...
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