The replacement for the beleaguered Phoenix pay system will have to better integrate the government's human resources and pay departments, Public Services and Procurement Canada Minister Carla Qualtrough told senators at a committee hearing Wednesday night. In the government's budget released in February, $16 million is set aside to replace the pay system that has continuously failed to pay employees correctly since it was launched more than two years ago. Qualtrough told senators at the finance committee they have learned a new system can't put pay and human resources in silos. "The partners in this crime are HR and pay and we know we can't just focus on the pay," she said. "I envision a time where we don't talk separately about an HR system and a pay system," she said.

Source: CBC News March 22, 2018 10:53 UTC