Vendor selected: IBM Canada receives a contract to implement a new PeopleSoft-based system. Costs are pegged at $310M, of which $187M will be pay system.Īug 19 - Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper promises 550 jobs in Miramichi: As part of this switch, employees will do the work of 2,700 compensation advisors scattered across the country The business case is approved and Public Works starts the procurement process. TimelineĬonservative Government launches plans to update the pay system:Under minister Rona Ambrose, Public Works launches a two-part plan to transform public service pay: consolidate all work in Miramichi, and replace the 40-year-old payment system. More than a year and a half later, government employees are urging the government to replace the system, and the government is talking about investing $50 million over four years to get the system back to track. And when there are issues with regards to people's pay, you bet none of those issues will be ones you'd be able to ignore. However, soon after the system's rollout it got hit by number of issues. The system was supposed save somewhere in the range of $70 million per year, as per government's announcements at the time of its launch.
The Federal Government of Canada rolled out a new Pay System during the later half of February, 2016.
