The cost to fix the federal government’s troubled Phoenix pay system keeps climbing and could eat into much of the $70 million in savings the ill-fated project was supposed to deliver to this year’s bottom line. Last week, Public Services Minister Judy Foote said the fix has already cost $25 million and counting. There are still more than 74,000 with unresolved pay problems on the backlog, which is a drop from the 82,000 on backlog in early July. “Our goal is to eliminate all pay problems, but it is important to acknowledge that the complexity of public service pay and the opportunities for human error mean that the potential for pay issues will always be present. The hope is that through the pay transformation initiative, including the implementation of Phoenix, there will be fewer pay issues than before once we reach our steady state.”

Source: National Post August 24, 2016 20:37 UTC