Phoenix, we have a problem: feds bring in pay experts to deal with ongoing public service pay fiasco

Phoenix was projected to save the feds $67.2-million a year. Now the government's expected to pay $50-million just to fix the problem-plagued new government pay system, and 22,000 cases are still unresolved, down from 82,000.
Federal public service unions protested against the disastrous Phoenix public service pay system outside the Prime Minister's Office on Oct. 31 in Ottawa.
With Public Services and Procurement blowing past its deadline to resolve the disastrous Phoenix pay system backlog issues, sources say some departments have hired back or brought in department-specific compensation staff to internally deal with payroll problems. After pledging to clear up the bac...

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