The federal government says it could take months to fix a mammoth problem with its new pay system that has impacted more than one-quarter of its roughly 300-thousand employees. Marie Lemay, deputy minister of Public Services and Procurement, apologized today for the problems. (While some 480 civil servants can expect emergency payments by the middle of next week, the government says it's also exploring ways it can compensate employees for out-of-pocket expenses resulting from the pay predicament, such as reimbursements for bank fees and credit card charges.)

Date: 2016-07-18
Placeline: OTTAWA.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 8 seconds

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