Public servant’s $42,151 transition-payment cheque goes missing as job cuts test federal pay system

The former Natural Resources Canada employee is one of three federal workers who told The Hill Times they experienced delayed, missing or unresolved payments as Ottawa processes a growing wave of workforce-adjustment departures.
Government Transformation Minister Joël Lightbound is responsible for the department handling longstanding pay system issues. More than 4,100 public servants have chosen workforce adjustment options that include a lump-sum transition payment.

Cindy Mitchell left the federal public service this past spring through workforce adjustment, the process used when federal positions are being cut or eliminated. She was entitled to a transition payment, including $42,151 that was supposed to be transferred into her registe...

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