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A House Financial Services subcommittee will hold a hearing Thursday on employee allegations of discrimination and retaliation at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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More than a year after the CFPB revamped its employee rating system following allegations of discrimination, Equal Employment Opportunity complaints have surged and the agency faces ongoing accusations of bias and retaliation against workers who speak out.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau managers are far more likely to rate white employees highly than minorities, data obtained by American Banker shows. The figures reflect broad personnel problems inside the agency and are likely to give rise to claims that it's failing to uphold standards it punishes others for violating.
March 6
WASHINGTON A top official who handles employee discrimination complaints at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is among the "whistle-blowers" testifying before Congress on Thursday.
Florine Williams, a senior equal employment specialist at the CFPB's Office of Civil Rights, is among the two whistle-blowers slated to appear before a House Financial Services subcommittee on employee allegations of discrimination and retaliation by management. The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee released the names late Monday, which also include the CFPB's local union chapter president and an examiner, Robert Cauldwell.
Cauldwell was one of eight employees
Williams "will testify about mismanagement of the Office of Civil Rights, as well as numerous instances of discrimination and retaliation that she has witnessed while working at the bureau," the subcommittee said in its June 22 memorandum. Cauldwell "will testify about incidents of discrimination and retaliation at the CFPB that he has observed, and that have been alleged by members of the union chapter he leads."
The hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Thursday.
