Some PSAC Employees Got Regular Pay During 2023 Strike

Published on January 27, 2024

Payroll mistakes reportedly resulted in striking workers getting paid millions of dollars during a 2023 strike. According to Blackock’s Reporter, the federal Department of Public Works said about 120,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada were paid regular wages during a 12-day strike in the spring of 2023. The department added that most overpayments have been recovered. “In total approximately $309 million in overpayments was created between April and November 2023,” the department wrote the Commons government operations committee. The department added that about $150 million in overpayments was created for “leave without pay” transactions due to strike activities, as departments “were not able to enter ‘leave without pay’ in the system for over 100,000 employees in time to stop their pay.”...

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