Union warns pay system may not be able to handle layoffs, early retirements 10 years after start of Phoenix problems

The Phoenix pay system has cost the government more than $5-billion to date, and the current backlog of pay issues stands at around 238,000 transactions.
PIPSC president Sean O'Reilly is calling for the government to 'stabilize' its pay system ahead of pending job cuts in order to avoid a growing backlog in cases of inaccurate pay.

A decade into the problem-plagued Phoenix system, one of the largest federal public service unions says the pay system still cannot reliably handle complex payment transactions including early retirements, transfers, and layoffs amid a turbulent time within the federal publi...

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