No Matter What the Doctor Said. (Podcast Episode 4)

Hey Feds,

You asked for an accommodation — or you're about to — and what came back was a policy: "Everyone's back in the office. No exceptions." Or worse: months of silence while your leave balance drains.

Here's what the law actually says: the return-to-office memo did not repeal the Rehabilitation Act. It couldn't. This episode is the complete map — the reasonable accommodation request, start to finish, with telework as the example.

In this episode:

• How to start the request in plain English — no magic words, no form required, and the ask itself is legally protected
• The one sentence to send when the agency demands the same paperwork twice (it changes the conversation)
• The five factors that can turn months of "still under review" into the violation itself — the EEOC found one 10-month runaround was a denial, and the employee won

Plus: Jodi Hershey — 23 years in federal service, thousands of accommodation requests handled from the inside — on the mistakes agencies are making right now. And how she is helping feds with her new foundation, EASE LLC, at https://accommodationsthatwork.com/. 

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Know a coworker whose request has been "under review" for months? Forward this — that delay may be their strongest evidence.

— Shaun Southworth, Founding Partner, Southworth PC

P.S. Got a question for the show? [email protected] — we answer them on air. (It's general information, not legal advice.)