The Phoenix pay system is screwing us all
KAMLOOPS — 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.