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A federal district court granted a preliminary injunction protecting CFPB employees and their critical work while our lawsuit challenging this administration's attempt to dismantle the CFPB is adjudicated.
NTEU sprang into action when Acting Director Russell Vought issued an order halting CFPB's work, filing a lawsuit the following day. Our efforts continued as CFPB terminated probationary and term employees during the week of Feb. 10. As publicly available information revealed, our litigation stopped a much larger wave of firings that was slated to occur on Feb. 14.
Friday's preliminary injunction voids the Acting Director's stop-work order and prohibits its reissuance. That means that the work that CFPB employees do for the American public will continue. The preliminary injunction also means that while they do that work, they will be protected from the types of arbitrary firings that have happened across the government. The preliminary injunction allows removals for cause or for conduct only. And it requires the reinstatement of all term and probationary employees who were part of the mass firing that occurred between Feb.10 and March 28.
While the government might appeal this order, it is in effect—and NTEU and its partners in this litigation will fight to keep it in effect.