OTTAWA — The federal government has paid out $11.3 million in overtime over the past three years to public servants tasked with taming the monster that is the Phoenix pay system, according to a new document tabled in the House of Commons. The figure is yet another example of the escalating costs associated with fixing the payroll problems that have plagued a majority of Canada’s federal public servants over the past few years. Average expenditures of between $2.8 and $3 million annually on overtime for pay centre employees in Miramichi, N.B. About 1,500 staff in total are now working on payroll issues across the government. But it was the Liberal government that went ahead with an initial rollout of the new Phoenix system in February 2016.

Source: National Post November 22, 2018 21:45 UTC