Southworth PC - Attorneys For Federal Employees

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.

09/03/2026

9.3.26 Scenario: you won before an MSPB Administrative Judge, the agency petitioned for review, and months later you're home and unpaid. The Board's September 1 data show why the wait is long — 789 petitions pending, 249 "awaiting Board action", and two of three Board seats filled. But 5 U.S.C. § 7701(b)(2) says a prevailing appellant gets the ordered relief while the petition is pending, and if the agency finds your return "unduly disruptive" it must still pay you and continue your benefits. General information, not legal advice. Is the agency in your scenario complying? EEO counselors and union reps: bring your read to the comments.

09/03/2026

9.3.26 North Carolina mails the first midterm ballots tomorrow, and the Postal Service is still building a portal that a whistleblower says can reject a state's entire ballot mailing over one bad barcode scan. A federal judge has blocked the mandatory parts of the rule through September 10, found the Postal Service violated her earlier injunction, and wrote that the record "continues to lack any evidence regarding fraudulent absentee or mail-in voting." The whistleblower says the system was built in weeks with four work days of testing; the postal workers' union says no one has been trained. This is general information, not legal advice. Request your ballot early, track it, have a backup plan — and share this so someone else checks theirs.

09/03/2026

9.3.26 Everyone's covering the 2027 pay freeze; the number almost nobody is covering is the government's own: the Federal Salary Council puts federal pay 24.72% behind the private sector for comparable jobs, and last week's letter froze it there while inflation runs 3.4%. The same letter promises no harm to recruitment and retention, then gives law enforcement 3.8% for exactly that. It isn't final: Congress writes the number into the funding bill and did exactly that in 2019, paying 1.9% retroactively after a proposed freeze. The House bill is silent on civilian pay and the Senate hasn't written its version, so tell your senators, on your own time and your own phone, what a zero means at your house (text RESIST to 50409). Information, not legal advice — and in the comments, what do you think?

09/02/2026

9.2.26 For twenty years OPM ran one employee survey for the whole government; starting this year, your agency runs its own. OPM's proposed rule would trim the required questions from sixteen to ten — dropping "My workload is reasonable," "Considering everything, how satisfied are you with your job?" and "I recommend my organization as a good place to work" — and add "In my work unit, steps are taken to deal with a poor performer who cannot or will not improve." The whistleblower question survived: "I can disclose a suspected violation of any law, rule or regulation without fear of reprisal." The proposal would also let each agency "determine the specific content of its public disclosure" of its results; comments closed August 3, 2026, and no final rule has issued. General information, not legal advice. Run the cut question here: "My workload is reasonable" — AGREE or DISAGREE, plus your agency if you're comfortable.

09/02/2026

9.2.26 The IRS lost about 27% of its examination and collection staff between FY2024 and FY2025, and roughly a quarter of its total workforce since January 2025. TIGTA's new report shows what followed: audit collections down 35% ($10 billion to $6.5 billion), 30% fewer individual audits started, and one division pausing new audits from March through September. Total revenue still hit a record $5.3 trillion, mostly withheld from paychecks automatically. The nearly $700 billion a year that isn't paid on its own is what auditors exist to collect. General information, not legal advice. Name one business that cuts its collections department and calls it savings.

09/02/2026

9.2.26 The House passed the stopgap 370–48, the Senate already passed it 90–6, and the President is expected to sign — so October 1 should come and go without a lapse. But it is a continuing resolution: funding frozen at current levels through December 11, with three of twelve spending bills through the House and none through the Senate. The 2019 Government Employee Fair Treatment Act says furloughed feds get paid once a lapse ends; this administration has argued the law doesn't guarantee that, and OPM pulled back-pay language from its shutdown guidance in January. General information, not legal advice. Did you miss a paycheck in one of the last two shutdowns? Drop your agency — and tell me whether December 11 is a relief or a reschedule.

09/01/2026

People arrive at the board braced to defend themselves, and the law does not actually ask them to. In this episode, we explained what flips the moment your appeal is filed, and what “preponderance” really means. This is general information, not legal advice. Full episode: Fedlegalhelp.com/podcast

09/01/2026

9.1.26 The EEOC voted 2–1 to rewrite the entire federal-sector EEO complaint process — and gave the public thirty days to respond to roughly 150 pages. A motion to extend comments to sixty days didn't even get a second, and neither did a motion to form a working group like the one behind the last major rewrite in the nineties. When the proposal itself misnumbers key provisions and cites sections that aren't there, speed becomes the story. This is general information, not legal advice. Comments close September 28 at regulations.gov — then tell me below: is this moving too fast, or is fast the point?

09/01/2026

9.1.26 The White House calls a federal pay raise "irresponsible" — then asks for a $1.5 trillion defense budget as the Iran war drives costs. By the administration's own letter, the full statutory raise costs $26 billion: less than two cents on the dollar of that request, about six days of it. Only 27% of Americans think we should have gone to war with Iran, and 80% say it made gas and groceries more expensive — the same prices a frozen paycheck has to chase. After 317,000 feds left government in 2025, the question isn't whether we can afford a raise; it's whether we can afford to keep losing the people who do the work. Congress can still override the freeze — the FAIR Act's 4.1% is on the table. General information, not legal advice — tell me in the comments what six days of Pentagon spending buys that matters more than the federal workforce.

09/01/2026

9.1.26 A whistleblower inside the Postal Service says a rushed new mail-ballot system kept moving even after a federal judge ordered it halted — and that one bad bar code could reject tens of thousands of ballots at once. Senator Blumenthal's office published the report this morning; the Postal Service declined to comment on the record. One in three Americans votes by mail, so this is not just a federal-employee story — it's yours. Whistleblower protections are how the public finds out what its government is actually doing. This is general information, not legal advice. Do you vote by mail? Tell me your state — and share this with someone whose ballot comes through the mail.

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