Civil Rights for Civil Servants
Shaun Southworth and Lydia Taylor 7 episodes Sep 4, 2026
Civil Rights for Civil Servants is a biweekly podcast from Southworth PC, a federal employment law firm that represents federal employees and applicants nationwide. Founding partner Shaun Southworth and partner Lydia Taylor explain the rights, protections, and processes that shape federal careers, including MSPB appeals, EEO complaints, whistleblower protections, reductions in force, discipline, and due process. Each episode offers plain-English, experience-based analysis of what the law says, where cases go wrong, and how federal employees can protect themselves. The show is intended as general information rather than legal advice.
Episodes
Federal EEO Process Changes: What the EEOC Is Proposing
The EEOC has published a proposed rewrite of the federal EEO process. Current Part 1614 procedures still govern today—but future filing, evidence development, and Administrative Judge access could change.Current as of September 4, 2026: the NPRM was published August 28 at 91 Fed. Reg. 55,690; comments are due September 28. It asks for comment on transition rules for matters pending when a final ru
MSPB Appeal: The 30 Days That Decide Your Federal Career
If your agency removes, demotes, or suspends you for more than 14 days, you have 30 calendar days to get to the Board. Miss it and the strongest case in the world never gets heard.Southworth PC attorneys Shaun Southworth and Lydia Taylor walk the MSPB appeal start to finish: who can appeal, what happens when you file, why the burden lands on the agency, and what winning looks like.In this episode:
The Reasonable Accommodation Request, Start to Finish
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 th
The Federal EEO Complaint, Start to Finish — Mind the Clock
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, r
Probation and Beyond: Surviving The Most Dangerous Year of Your Federal Career
Your probationary year is the year the law protects you least — and the year your agency can move you out without proving much of anything. Though these days, many people who have survived their probationary year feel like they're under similar strain. Regardless of how you feel about your legal protections, and regardless of what those protections are, are there other steps you can take to protec
Premiere: 18 Months That Changed the Federal Workforce — and the File You Should Be Building
Welcome to the premiere of Civil Rights for Civil Servants, the podcast from Southworth PC dedicated to federal employees nationwide. Hosts Shaun Southworth (founding partner) and Lydia Taylor (managing partner) launch the show on Juneteenth — a deliberate choice, because the day the last enslaved Americans in Galveston learned they were free, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, capture
They Kept a File on You. It's Time You Kept One on Them.
They kept a file on you. It's time you kept one on them.For the last year and a half, federal employees have lived through hiring freezes, deferred resignations, probationary firings, and RIFs — and watched a court rule that tens of thousands of those firings were unlawful while almost no one got their job back. Civil Rights for Civil Servants is the answer to that moment: a podcast from Shaun Sou
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