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Southworth PC - Attorneys For Federal Employees Nationwide federal employment law firm proudly protecting current and former federal employees. We maintain offices in Atlanta, Dallas, and Washington, D.C.

Southworth PC is a national federal employment law firm representing current and former federal employees in EEO/EEOC matters; Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) appeals; Office of Special Counsel (OSC) and whistleblower matters; discipline and removals; reasonable-accommodation disputes; reductions in force (RIFs); and related federal employment matters. Our fully remote team includes 35 legal professionals, including 14 attorneys, many of whom are former federal employees. Founded and led by Shaun Southworth, with Lydia Taylor leading day-to-day operations, we combine legal rigor, compassion, technology, and plain-English guidance. Our mission is to help 500 federal employees resolve employment disputes over five years. Your service is worth protecting. Let’s protect it together at Southworth PC. This Page provides general information and may constitute attorney advertising. It is not legal advice, does not create an attorney-client relationship, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any government agency. Do not send confidential information through Facebook or rely on this Page for legal deadlines. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Shaun Southworth is responsible for this communication.

09/18/2026

The comment came in on a social post the morning after the vote, and it is the same thing a lot of feds are quietly thinking right now. Lydia Taylor answers it directly. This is general information, not legal advice. Full episode: FedLegalHelp.com/podcast

09/18/2026

9.18.26 The agency that lost 21.5 million background checks in 2015 would now like claims-level health data on up to 8 million feds, retirees, and family members, kept for 30 years, with the right to re-identify you whenever it's "reasonably necessary." Six senators say the notice lets OPM share that data with law enforcement, including foreign law enforcement, and that OPM still hasn't answered their April question about whether it touches hiring, suitability, RIFs, or reasonable accommodations. It's Petty Friday, but the issue isn't small. This is general information, not legal advice. If you want a say, text RESIST to 50409 and tell your senators before OPM's September 25 response deadline.

09/17/2026

9.17.26 OPM Director Scott Kupor says the $9.5 billion the government paid employees not to work in 2025 bought a 400% return. GAO's own report says fewer than 600 federal employees took more than 90 workdays of paid administrative leave in 2023 and 2024; in 2025, almost 100,000 did, and OPM "does not know the actual costs." OPM's savings number has moved five times in thirteen months, half the deferred resignations were retirements, agencies have already rehired 20,000 people into the same jobs, and the IRS cuts alone are projected to cost more revenue each year than the entire claimed savings. That is not a return on investment; it's the bill. General information, not legal advice. Were the cuts good or bad, and what did it look like inside your agency?

09/17/2026

9.17.26 VA's Inspector General just released its annual staffing shortage report, and officials at all 139 VA medical centers reported severe shortages: 4,712 across 389 occupations, the most in the seven years Federal News Network has tracked these reports. Ninety-seven percent of facilities flagged physicians, 86 percent flagged nurses, 122 hospitals flagged at least one mental-health or social-work job, and ten flagged the Chief of Staff position itself. Inside the report, VA's Acting Under Secretary for Health concurred with no comments; publicly, VA's press secretary says it isn't a reliable indicator because it measures hard-to-fill jobs rather than vacancies, while Sen. Blumenthal says eliminating tens of thousands of positions artificially lowered those vacancy rates. Meanwhile, 300 congressionally authorized waivers to the $400,000 physician pay cap remain unused. General information, not legal advice: VA employees and veterans, is staffing adequate where you are? Name your facility in the comments.

09/16/2026

9.16.26 OPM just reopened the comment period on its Promoting Employee Accountability rule to take comments on a report from We the Doers, and I read the whole thing. Ten managers, twenty-two cases, and recommendations that would consolidate your MSPB, EEOC, and OSC appeals into one body, raise the bar to file an EEO complaint, and send employees on a PIP to the agency's doctor for a second opinion. Comments are due September 29 at regulations.gov, docket 2025-OPM-0012, and OPM says it will only consider comments that address the data it published. Our full response and our EEO comment drop next week. Information, not legal advice.

09/16/2026

9.16.26 Serious question, mostly: should Petty Friday live? This one's inside baseball for the people who actually follow our content. Our leadership team just planned the next quarter, and we don't want to plan how we show up for you without asking you. The form is anonymous, takes about five minutes, and the link is in the bio (fedlegalhelp.com/feedback). Information, not legal advice, as always. Tell us what to keep, what to change, and what we're missing.

09/15/2026

9.15.26 A whistleblower says hundreds of USCIS officers were pulled onto a voter hunt and assured they wouldn't be personally liable for how they got the data. DHS says the data was public and the work was professional, and nothing has been proven. But that assurance leaves out a lot: federal-officer immunity is a defense you raise after you're charged, the government decides whether to defend you, and the agency's lawyers are not your lawyers. General information, not legal advice. If you've been handed an order you believe would require you to break the law, talk to your union, your representative, or us before you act.

09/15/2026

9.15.26 The Supreme Court kept the Postal Service's new mail-ballot rules blocked last night, but read the fine print before you exhale. Justice Kavanaugh signaled the rules may be lawful once there is time to implement them, a USPS whistleblower says the ballot portal was rushed and untested, and the administration's request to run state voter rolls against Social Security data is still pending. Seven weeks out, my bottom line is simple: vote early, and vote in person if you can. This is general information, not legal advice. If you work for the Postal Service, tell me in the comments what this rollout looked like from the inside.

09/14/2026

9.14.26 A federal judge said Thursday he'll pause USDA's September 21 relocation deadlines through October 2, set a hearing for September 29, and told both sides to draft the order together. On Friday they filed two versions: the unions' pauses every deadline in every reassignment letter across eight USDA components, while USDA's redline limits the pause to the September 21 date and to moves outside the local commuting area. Both versions bar USDA from firing, disciplining, or marking AWOL anyone who declines or doesn't relocate on a paused deadline. As of this morning's public docket neither is signed, so the date in your letter still controls, and no one has ruled on whether the moves are lawful. General information, not legal advice; if your deadline is this week, send your letter to your rep or to us and ask whether it falls inside the stay.

09/14/2026

9.14.26 A federal judge just ruled that DHS broke the law when it took over FEMA's workforce decisions and pushed a plan to cut the agency in half. The number came with no analysis behind it, the officials discussed it on auto-deleting Signal messages, and the January non-renewals only stopped because a winter storm rolled in. The remedy is still being negotiated with a filing deadline of October 9, so this is not over. This is general information, not legal advice, and every situation is different. If you were a FEMA CORE affected in January, tell us what it looked like from the inside.

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