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There seems no end to the knock-on effects of the federal government’s rollout of the Phoenix pay system.
Treasury Board has advised public service executives not to pay employees automatically on March 31 for “excess” vacation, travel and time-off in lieu of overtime earned during the previous 12 months — unless employees request it.
Under normal rules, public servants are limited in the amount of time they may carry over from one year to the next. Anything over the maximum set by Treasury Board policy or union agreement — typically five or six weeks — is automatically paid out in cash on March 31, the end of the government’s fiscal year.
The rules are to prevent the creation of large time banks that allow employees to take lengthy leaves of absence. But the government is trying to reduce as many demands as possible on the Phoenix pay system, which is still grappling with a backlog that will take months to fix.
“We didn’t want to place an undue burden on the (Phoenix) system,” said Debi Daviau, president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, which has 57,000 members. Daviau, who was consulted by Treasury Board, the agency responsible for negotiating with public sector unions, didn’t have a problem with the changes because the automatic payouts are supposed to benefit management.
The Treasury Board directive applies to all government employees, including executives, and union and non-union workers. Treasury Board implemented a similar policy a year ago when difficulties associated with Phoenix first surfaced.
Daviau said relatively few of her members exercised their right to an immediate payout. In some cases this was because that would bump them into a higher tax bracket. Nor did PIPSC members want to risk putting an optional request through Phoenix software that might not be able to handle it properly.
Treasury Board’s directive does not make clear how the excess vacation and overtime will be dealt with once Phoenix returns to steady state — perhaps before year-end 2017. Certainly the government’s liabilities for this item are growing.
Nor is it known how departments will pay out cash to employees who do request automatic payments for time owing from the fiscal year ending March 31.
The human resources manager for one federal department wrote this week: “We are awaiting further instructions from Treasury Board” about how to process cash-out payments for employees who want them.
jbagnall@postmedia.com
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Treasury Board has advised public service executives not to pay employees automatically on March 31 for “excess” vacation, travel and time-off in lieu of overtime earned during the previous 12 months — unless employees request it.
Under normal rules, public servants are limited in the amount of time they may carry over from one year to the next. Anything over the maximum set by Treasury Board policy or union agreement — typically five or six weeks — is automatically paid out in cash on March 31, the end of the government’s fiscal year.
The rules are to prevent the creation of large time banks that allow employees to take lengthy leaves of absence. But the government is trying to reduce as many demands as possible on the Phoenix pay system, which is still grappling with a backlog that will take months to fix.
“We didn’t want to place an undue burden on the (Phoenix) system,” said Debi Daviau, president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, which has 57,000 members. Daviau, who was consulted by Treasury Board, the agency responsible for negotiating with public sector unions, didn’t have a problem with the changes because the automatic payouts are supposed to benefit management.
The Treasury Board directive applies to all government employees, including executives, and union and non-union workers. Treasury Board implemented a similar policy a year ago when difficulties associated with Phoenix first surfaced.
Daviau said relatively few of her members exercised their right to an immediate payout. In some cases this was because that would bump them into a higher tax bracket. Nor did PIPSC members want to risk putting an optional request through Phoenix software that might not be able to handle it properly.
Treasury Board’s directive does not make clear how the excess vacation and overtime will be dealt with once Phoenix returns to steady state — perhaps before year-end 2017. Certainly the government’s liabilities for this item are growing.
Nor is it known how departments will pay out cash to employees who do request automatic payments for time owing from the fiscal year ending March 31.
The human resources manager for one federal department wrote this week: “We are awaiting further instructions from Treasury Board” about how to process cash-out payments for employees who want them.
jbagnall@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/JamesBagnall1
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