Judge Extends Pause on Mass Federal Layoffs
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A federal judge Monday kept in place an order prohibiting mass firings at the Consumer Financial ... D.C., came after a top official at the CFPB who has been the chief operating officer since ...
Mass layoffs targeting 90% of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staff divided judges on a federal appeals panel Friday grappling with whether to overturn a lower court order blocking the firings.
"The judge rightly recognizes the DOGE mass firings as illegal RIFs, and that agencies must right these wrongs for employees caught up in Elon Musk's attacks on public services." In an email obtained by American Banker, Nelle Rohlich, the CFPB union's ...
“The record abundantly reveals that Defendants’ true intention is to effectively dismantle the Department without an authorizing statute,” U.S. District Judge Myong Joun wrote, noting “the Department cannot be shut down without Congress’s approval.”
A federal judge has permanently blocked another of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting a major law firm, calling it unconstitutional retaliation designed to punish lawyers for their le