CFPB Workers File Grievance to Block Deferred Resignation Plan

The union representing Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees says that a deferred resignation proposal from the Office of Personnel Management is a violation of the law and their collective bargaining agreement.

The union filed an internal grievance Wednesday asking the CFPB to retract the deferred resignation program and allow any employee that has agreed to it to withdraw.

The program, announced in a Jan. 28 email from OPM, is a change in working conditions that is subject to bargaining under the agency’s CBA, the union says.

“The Bureau cannot bypass the Union to directly negotiate conditions of employment,” the unfair ...