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Civil Rights for Civil Servants

Civil Rights for Civil Servants

The Federal EEO Complaint, Start to Finish — Mind the Clock

Jul 17, 2026 · 57m

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The strongest discrimination case in the world can end before anyone looks at the facts — because a federal employee missed a deadline nobody warned them about. Southworth PC attorneys Shaun Southworth and Lydia Taylor walk the federal EEO complaint process from first contact to hearing — where cases are won, where they're lost, and where they quietly get abandoned. With return-to-office denials, reorganizations, and RIFs pushing more feds into this system than in years, the deadlines decide more cases than the facts do. In this episode: The Docket A federal court ordered the Justice Department to restore full-time telework as a disability accommodation for two immigration-court attorney…