Federal civil servants are being told they’ll have to wait this week to see the details of their paycheques after a “technical glitch” forced a shutdown of the Phoenix pay account system.
It’s just one more problem that has emerged days after the two-year anniversary of the pay system’s ill-fated launch.
Officials with Public Services and Procurement Canada, the department responsible for administering the troubled system, said the problem is expected to be resolved by Wednesday.
Government employees are normally able to view their pay information a couple of days in advance of payday, which for many falls on Wednesday.
But when some workers signed into the system this morning, they noticed they’d been issued two identical pay stubs for the same date.
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