No one person likely to blame for federal pay system debacle, says bureaucrat
OTTAWA — It’s unlikely that any single person will be held accountable for the government’s failed employee pay system, a senior federal bureaucrat told a news conference Wednesday.
The costs of dealing with the pay problems will also likely continue well into the new fiscal year, which begins April 1, said Marie Lemay, deputy minister of Public Services and Procurement Canada.
The department continues to struggle with a backlog of about 8,000 cases of government employees who have experienced problems with their paycheques, ranging from being underpaid to being overpaid — or not being paid at all.
About 5,000 of those files have been partially resolved but are not yet completed, said Lemay.