The judge again stops the layoffs of CFPB 1500

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On Friday, a federal judge arrested a temporary effort by the Financial Consumer Protection Office to December himself.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson from the US Boycott Court of Colombia CFPB stopped from cutting off the employees’ arrival to office systems – a step that was identified for 6 pm Easter on Friday as part of a reduction in the agency’s agency’s agency, Ross Fion, on Thursday in notes to approximately 1500 workers.

“We will not spend 1,483 people in the universe and make them unable to communicate with the agency anymore until we decide whether or not.” Berman Jackson said in a Friday session.

Lawyers who represent the Union of National Treasury employees Berman Jackson asked Late Thursday to attend the emergency session to force CFPB to clarify How do you not violate workers’ demobilization Preliminary Berman Jackson was awarded last month – or, for this issue, a Reducing The Appeals Court issued last week.

Three witnesses – two CFPB Employees and lawyers represent no – Ads were submitted to the court on Friday, before the session.

Matthew BavafThe Chief of Staff at the Consumer response office at CFPB told the court that he had received a notice on Thursday indicating that his job will end on June 16, but he will lose access to CFPB – “Thus, the ability to work”, at 6 pm on Friday.

“This RIF procedure is necessary to restructure office operations to better reflect the agency’s priorities.” The memorandum was included in the PFAFF to the court.

These priorities were placed on Wednesday in a memorandum from the chief legal official at CFPB, Mark Paulta, who said the office It will focus Its focus away from Nondepository Institutions and towards “concrete damages to consumers”. When doing this, the office will “convert resources away from the enforcement and supervision that the states can do”, ” Paulita He wrote Wednesday.

The initial order issued by Berman Jackson on March 28 was suspended any valid mass discounts. The Court of Appeal ruled on April 11 CFPB RIF notification can be sent but only when employees are identified, after an individual evaluation, to be unnecessary to perform legal duties for the defendants. “

“these Coral reefs It seems that it goes beyond what it is Without running Parts of the permission of this restraint court, “a lawyer for no On Thursday, he wrote to Berman Jackson. “It is not understood that the office’s cutting by 90 percent in only 24 hours, with no notice of people to prepare for this cancellation, does not interfere with the performance of” his legal duties, and not to say anything about the inability of the defendant’s randomness that the defendants undertook “with a specific evaluation” for each employee in the thirty -three trade houses.

CFPB discounts will be left with a large number of 200, according to the numbers in September.

“The entire offices, including legally delegated offices, have been canceled or reduced soon to one person,” NTEU’s lawyers wrote in their suggestion on Thursday.

The list of affected employees cuts a wide range across the office, including all the consumer response team, with the exception of eight managers; “Almost everyone” in the research, monitoring and regulations section; Everyone in the supervision policy except for the head of the office; Everyone in supervision exams, with the exception of the head of the office; Everyone in the fair lending office; Almost everyone in cybersecurity; And the legal team in the front office of the office, according Jennifer Bennett advertisementGueta Wesler’s lawyer, which represents NTEU.

PFAF gave more details about the influence in the consumer response office, noting that “even the employees who already submitted a notice to CFPB of their resignation from the federal service, as well as those who accepted the deferred resignation program, received this RIF notice.”

During the NTEU case against CFPB, the office was responded to consumer complaints as a major example of the office’s executing job.

“No leader has been consulted in the consumer response to what is required to operate the legal duties of the office or how RIF will affect the complaint processing program, which is currently expected to deal with more than five million complaints and more than half a million calls in 2025.”. “Almost all employees have been informed that their positions are eliminated – including those that are unambiguously in line with the legal goals and necessary to collect consumer complaints, investigation and respond to them.”

PFAF said that the office will shrink to eight managers, which is estimated at 135 employees.

“Each of these eight employees is a manager of managers who do not perform the daily tasks that allow the office to fulfill its compulsory legal duties,” PFAF said.

Other staff went on social media.

Elizabeth Bond, a prominent adviser to CFPB technical head, received her notification during maternity leave.

“This termination came during a period of time to recover physically, interconnected with my child, and support my family through this transition. LinkedIn. “This means terrible things for all Americans.”

“One of the consumers will not protect and search for their best interests,” Bond told the New York Times.

Others are still speaking on condition of anonymity.

“Anyone must expect a letter at any time for the rest of this administration,” CFPB. American banking. “It is the sword of Damocles.”

At least one consumer lawyer – Irene Wei, the Consumers Union in AmericaConsumer Protection Director – by order of the CFPB Court of Appeal in her statement on Thursday, convicted the workforce discounts.

“The sabotage of CFPB by launching nearly 90 % of the remaining civil service employees who protect Americans from the crime of companies is barely” individual “or” private “evaluation that the court asked CFPB to submit to. “These collective workers”, in addition to the reinforcement note Paulta from Wednesday, provides a plan for potential fraud and laws of law on laws that they can violate without assuming the responsibility for financing the supposed consumer in our nation. “

Senator Elizabeth Warren, M,, CFPB, who is now a member of the Senate Banking Committee, expressed in a statement on Thursday that the agency was “was” the agency “”I devoured“

She said: “The dismantling of CFPB in the face of an order from the court that prevents illegal closure is another attack on consumers and our democracy through this law -free administration, and we will fight with everything we have.”

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