Federal Employee Resource Center

Federal employees have lived through an extraordinary eighteen months, and Southworth PC wants to help more of those stories be told firsthand rather than about the people who live...

A. Philip Randolph is not always the first name federal employees hear when they learn about civil rights. But his work helped change the relationship between Black workers, federa...

For federal employees, few experiences are more destabilizing than being told your work is no longer needed—only to watch the agency later admit it needs that same work done. That ...

Black History Month is often framed as a time for reflection, celebration, and learning. For federal employees, it can also be a moment to think more deeply about how racial justic...

Federal employees expect policy disagreements. They do not expect official government channels to echo language historically associated with extremist ideologies. Yet recent agency...

A federal judge in Chicago has issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) that sharply limits how federal agents can police immigration-related protests. The ruling, prompted by re...

In 1863, a photograph known as The Scourged Back stunned the nation. It showed Peter Gordon, an enslaved man who had escaped in Louisiana, with his back deeply scarred from years o...

On August 11, 2025, the President invoked Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act to declare a public safety emergency, place the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) under federal c...

Policy changes around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) seem to be accelerating—and not always in ways that promote fairness. For many federal employees, particularly those wh...