This appeared a few days ago:80,000 people suffer pay crisis in Canada after IBM system debacleBy freelance correspondent Susan Delacourt in OttawaSeptember 1, 2016No-one in Canada can accuse public servants of being overpaid these days.Key points:The crisis affects 80,000 employees or almost one third of Canada's federal public servantsIBM provided the payroll system for Queensland Health, and the severs for Australia's censusBureaucrat responsible says 'the system is working'Thanks to a massive breakdown of the Federal Government's new, privatised pay system, tens of thousands of Canadian public servants have been going weeks, even months with reduced pay — or in many cases, no pay at all.It is a crisis on a huge scale for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's new Government, and the cause of thousands of crises on an individual level, with people forced to borrow money or max out their credit cards to make ends meet.In Ottawa, the nation's capital, local radio stations...
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