PETERS – The Phoenix pay system is screwing us all
IT’S NOT as interesting maybe as fanciful flights to private islands or payouts to child soldiers, but the federal government has a much more costly and embarrassing boondoggle on its hands.
It’s the Phoenix pay system, a software program meant to handle payroll for civil servants that has been a nightmare ever since it was introduced only two years ago.
Instead of distributing money in a stable and effective manner to the 265,000 or so employees of the public service, the system has itself become a black hole for money.
According to the Globe and Mail, about 193,000 government workers have been underpaid, overpaid or not paid at all.
James Peters is the radio anchor at CFJC, coming to Kamloops in 2006. He anchors the afternoon news on B-100 and 98.3 CIFM, and contributes weekly editorials to the CFJC Evening News. He tweets regularly @Jamloops.
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