Feds expanding NextGen pay system testing to larger, ‘challenging’ Fisheries Department as exploratory phase ends

Testing will also include checking whether any new payroll software will work effectively in both official languages, and will allow the NextGen team to confirm that small and regional government organizations will be served equally by the new system.

Digital Government Minister Joyce Murray, left, Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada President Debi Daviau, and parliamentary secretary to the digital government minister Greg Fergus. Fisheries and the Coast Guard are some of the 'most challenging' pay groups in the core of public administration, according to Ms. Daviau. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

August 12, 2021

The federal government’s Next Generation HR and Pay project, meant to eventually replace the problem-plagued Phoenix pay system, is set to be expanded for testing to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, as well as to the Canada Economic Development for Quebec Region...

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