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Government demanding public servants reimburse years-old Phoenix overpayments

Government demanding public servants reimburse years-old Phoenix overpayments

Legal action threatened over money mistakenly paid during payroll system's error-plagued rollout in 2016. Federal public servants are being threatened with legal action if they don’t repay money they were overpaid during the error-plagued rollout of the Phoenix pay system nearly a decade ago, Radio-Canada has learned. The government has authorized private debt collection companies to pursue repayment from those...

Public service union calls for investigation into return-to-office mandate

Public service union calls for investigation into return-to-office mandate

A union representing some 27,000 federal public servants is calling for a parliamentary committee to hold an inquiry into the three-day-a-week return to office mandate. The Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE) believes the return-to-office policy has been "surrounded by catastrophic failures" and says the standing committee on government operations and estimates should investigate.