Feds to decide on next pay system in spring, says official in charge

Chief information officer Alex Benay says the new system won’t be deployed government-wide at first, and could run in parallel with Phoenix for a time.

The federal government's chief information officer, Alex Benay, says the new pay system will be deployed department by department, not using the 'big bang' approach taken with the current problem-plagued Phoenix system. Photograph courtesy of the Treasury Board Secretariat

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BY EMILY HAWS

September 5, 2018

The government is set to decide on how to replace the problem-plagued Phoenix pay system in the spring, with a new procurement process that could see the system purchase made by then, if need be, according to Canada’s chief information officer, who is tasked with coming up with it. Alex Benay sai...

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