Feds offering ‘white glove’ treatment for laid off public servants receiving severance, says PSPC official

Senior government official Alex Benay says he's 'pretty comfortable' the Phoenix pay system can handle the 'volume' of severance payouts as the public service faces a swell job cuts.

Alex Benay, Public Services and Procurement Canada's associate deputy minister, says a system is in place to ensure laid-off public servants get the correct severance pay as they exit the public service.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MARLO GLASS

March 5, 2026

The department responsible for fixing the Phoenix pay fiasco says a specialized service has been created for public servants who are facing layoffs and taking severance packages, in bracing for potentially thousands of job cuts across the federal bureaucracy.

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