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Civil Rights for Civil Servants

Civil Rights for Civil Servants

The Reasonable Accommodation Request, Start to Finish

Aug 4, 2026 · 1h 26m

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Your agency's return-to-office memo did not repeal the Rehabilitation Act. If "everyone back, no exceptions" is medically unworkable, the law still has an exception with your name on it. Southworth PC attorneys Shaun Southworth and Lydia Taylor walk the federal reasonable accommodation request start to finish — how to ask, what your agency owes you, the games to watch for, and what to do the day they say no. Treasury's civil rights office counted 6,500 backlogged requests, HHS projected six to nine months to clear roughly 9,000, and OPM's director estimates one in ten feds has a return-to-office exemption. In this episode: The Docket Is the federal-sector EEO process about to change?…