The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reinstated all probationary and most term employees it had terminated, after a federal judge mandated they be returned to work.
Terminated CFPB employees will receive back pay from the time they were fired, and their terminations will be removed from employment records, according to a letter from CFPB Chief Operating Officer Adam Martinez to affected staff obtained by Bloomberg Law.
Most of the employees will remain on administrative leave until instructed to return to work by their managers, Martinez said.
Term employees who worked for the CFPB for two years or more weren’t reinstated, according to multiple sources who spoke on condition of anonymity over concerns about retaliation. The CFPB didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The letter included the employees’ names, positions and salaries. The first wave of CFPB probationary employees were terminated using a form cover letter due to a bad mail merge, although when they clicked on an attachment all details were correct.
The agency had terminated 70 enforcement attorneys and other probationary employees as well as up to 100 term employees, such as technologists studying the impact of Big Tech on consumer finance, in the week after acting Director Russell Vought took over on Feb. 7.
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