Budget Morneau: End of the payroll system Phoenix

Christopher Nardi

Tuesday, 27-feb-2018 16:21

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OTTAWA | The federal government announces that it will put the axe in the disastrous payroll system Phoenix, but will flame them another half-billion $ to keep him alive a few more years.

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Phoenix does will be reborn ever from its ashes. In his budget 2018-2019, the Trudeau government announced that it would relegate to the dustbin the system called ” a fiasco “.

The system affects more than half of the 300,000 federal employees for two years now. Some of them had been paid too much and must now repay the government, others have simply not been paid for months.

Ottawa will spend at least$ 16 Million over the next two years to find an alternative solution.

But before you can start again from scratch, it will have to spend another$ 453 Million over five years solely to keep the system developed by IBM on the artificial respirator.

In total, the bill of Phoenix, therefore, should swell to$ 1 billion since its launch in 2016.

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However, Phoenix had been ordered in order to simplify payroll fetching the dozens of payroll systems in the federal under a single roof.

The system should enable savings of$ 170 Million per year in Ottawa, according to estimates by the conservative government of Stephen Harper, who had commissioned it.

Finally, it has been a headache for the liberal government that succeeded him upon its launch in the spring of 2016.

According to the unions, federal, many employees would not even promotions or changes of position, for fear of adding to the long list of victims of Phoenix.

And the problems don’t stop there, says the government in its budget.

“In order to take care of psychological stress and emotional real public servants caused by the problems of pay and financial implications to be unacceptable, the government has initiated discussions with the representatives of the public service to deal with the many grievances and lawsuits.”