Civil Servants to Get Up to $2,500 for Phoenix Pay System ‘Pain and Suffering’

Civil Servants to Get Up to $2,500 for Phoenix Pay System ‘Pain and Suffering’
Canadian Labour Congress president Hassan Yussuff (R) looks on as Public Service Alliance of Canada president Chris Aylward speaks duding a news conference about pay equity in Ottawa, on October 31, 2018. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA—Federal employees stand to collect up to $2,500 each in cash payments for “pain and suffering” resulting from the government’s failed Phoenix pay system under an agreement reached with the country’s biggest civil-service union.

The settlement comes as government workers scramble to get emergency benefits out to individual Canadians and businesses affected by the economic crisis that has flowed from the COVID-19 pandemic.