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Labor Department to Recertify Every Approved Accommodation Each Year: What Employees Should Know
Your agency approved your reasonable accommodation. Can it make you prove you still need it every year? At the Department of Labor, the answer is now yes, and the process starts ne...
Third Circuit Erases Ruling on EEOC’s Penn Subpoena: What Federal Employees Should Know
The Third Circuit has erased a lower-court ruling that enforced an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) subpoena seeking the personal phone numbers, emails, and home addr...
Stalled Medical Telework Request? EEOC's Rule Gives Your Agency a Deadline
If your medical telework request has been sitting for weeks with no answer, or came back with a one-line "return-to-office applies to everyone," there is a rule that works in your ...
The EEOC Explained in 1999 Why Your Agency Shouldn't Decide Your Case
Today, an EEOC administrative judge, not your own agency, has the power to decide a federal employee's discrimination case after a hearing, and the EEOC wrote down the reason for t...
EEOC Budget Plans Fewer Judges for the Same Federal-Sector Caseload
The EEOC's own FY 2027 budget request plans for fewer administrative judges to handle the same number of federal-sector hearing requests, even as the agency proposes limiting feder...
Why Southworth PC Filed 43 Pages Against the EEOC Complaint Rewrite
The EEOC's proposed rule for the federal-sector complaint process would change how federal employees challenge discrimination and retaliation at their own agencies, and Southworth ...
Missing Paragraphs and Phantom Citations: The Drafting Errors Inside the EEOC's Proposed EEO Overhaul
The EEOC proposed rule that would rewrite how every federal employee's discrimination complaint gets decided contains something you would not expect in an officially published regu...
Petty Friday: Who Is Andrea Lucas? The EEOC's Chair — and Its Most Effective Opponent
It’s Petty Friday — our weekly commentary for federal employees, where we take the week’s civil rights news with a little humor and a lot of receipts. This week: Andrea Lucas, the ...
Five Changes in the EEOC's Proposed Rule That Matter for Your Federal EEO Case
The EEOC’s proposed rule would demand more detail in your federal EEO complaint before the investigation — and take away your current choice to put the case before an EEOC judge. H...
150 Pages, 30 Days: The EEOC Motion for More Comment Time That Couldn't Get a Second
The EEOC has proposed a 150-page rewrite of the federal EEO complaint process — and federal employees will get just 30 days to comment on it. At the Commission’s meeting, a motion ...
EEOC Proposal: The Agency You Accuse Would Decide Your Discrimination Case First
The EEOC has proposed a major change to the federal EEO complaint process: under the new proposal, the agency you accuse of discrimination would ordinarily decide your case first —...
EEOC Votes August 26 on a Plan That Could End Your Right to an Independent Judge
On Wednesday, August 26 at 10 a.m. Eastern, the EEOC votes on a proposal that reports say could end federal employees' right to a hearing before an independent EEOC Administrative ...
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