Public servants ask federal labour body to declare government broke the law
OTTAWA — The biggest union representing public servants in Canada is seeking damages after the federal government missed a deadline for implementing four collective agreements.
The move formalizes a complaint launched in October by the Public Service Alliance of Canada after the Liberal government openly admitted problems with its Phoenix pay system would mean it would miss a 150-day deadline to pay three years’ worth of back pay and implement pay raises under the agreements.
The new contracts were ratified in June.
Failure to meet the deadline came even after PSAC gave the government an additional two months to make the changes.