The largest union in the federal public service is hoping the government uses this week's budget to set aside money for workers still facing issues from the Phoenix pay system.
Chris Aylward, president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, says some government workers still find themselves overpaid or underpaid some six years after the new pay system was launched.
Aylward says that there are still issues for workers transferred between departments and agencies who have to wait months for their pay to catch up to their job change. He also noted that workers who have recently left the public service have waited months or years for a final payout. The Liberals set aside $47 million over two years in last year's budget to deal with the backlog of cases by the end of this year, a move that helped bring the total price tag for Phoenix to over $2.1 billion.
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