‘Hundreds of public servants’ still waiting to get paid, struggle continues with new pay system implementation

Public Services says problems with Phoenix are being dealt with, while union officials say last week’s payday didn't create a significant amount of issues, but people are still waiting for money.

Public Services Minister Judy Foote's department is trying iron out the bugs of a new payment system called Phoenix, which last week was responsible for processing payments for more than 300,000 employees. The Hill Times photograph by Cynthia Münster

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BY DEREK ABMA

May 9, 2016

The automated pay system known as Phoenix is now deployed to almost every federal government employee outside of the military, RCMP, and Crown corporation workers, and bugs in the system are continuing to leave hundreds of workers short of money they are owed, according to federal public service uni...

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