Feds funnelling another $142-million into beleaguered Phoenix payroll system

That brings the total cost of fixing the new system to higher than the original cost of implementing it. The government is aiming to hire 200 temporary staff with the new money.

Steven MacKinnon, parliamentary secretary to the minister of Public Services and Procurement and MP for Gatineau, Que., said that as the MP for a region with a high concentration of federal employees, he knows 'firsthand' the 'difficult and stressful situations' people are facing as the result of getting underpaid, overpaid, or not paid at all due to the problem-plagued pay system.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY RACHEL AIELLO

May 24, 2017

The federal government will spend $142-million over the next two years to hire more staff to help fix the ongoing payroll issues that have affected tens of thousands of federal public servants as a result of the disastrous roll-out of the new Phoenix pay system. That brings the total cost of fixi...

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