Phoenix Pay System: Public Servants are Still Waiting for their Money after Pay Day

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July 27 was the day for many public servants to hope for payment of at least a part of what Ottawa owed from them.

This is after a disastroPhoenix Pay System Public Servants are Still Waiting for their Money after Pay Dayus downfall in the newly launched system threw the payroll into disorganization. Around 80,000 public servants have met the same problem with the new system according to the federal government. Last week, Minister Marie Lemay of Public Services and Procurement Deputy Minister, promised to compensate more than half of the 720 government employees on July 27.

According to Dawn, a federal public employee in her statement in Global news, she hasn’t yet paid after she returned from leave in March this year. Though she has been receiving emergency pay, Dawn said that her calls to the paying centers set up in Miramichi, NB and Gatineau, Que., are either busy or hung up on, and she didn’t get a reply from e-mails too.

In her statement in an email this Wednesday morning she said that she just have checked her accounts and confirmed that she has not been paid.

Dawn is not alone in this dilemma. There is still disappointment and ongoing frustration for many other employees, who opened their accounts as well, only to find not much, had changed. Another public servant from Alberta named Carmel Baron, who just has retired from the public service in March, didn’t have any payments in her final paycheck. She described the situation ridiculous for still waiting for an overtime pay from February and March.

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