n order to guarantee your right to the reassessment, as we recommended in our previous updates, we urge all those who received general damages for Phoenix to file an objection before the end of April 2023.
Phoenix
Seven years and counting: the Phoenix pay disaster still impacting workers today
We are marking yet another bleak anniversary – the seventh year of the Phoenix pay disaster.
PSAC files policy grievances over Phoenix overpayment recovery
PSAC has filed policy grievances against Treasury Board, Parks Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for their heavy-handed mismanagement of the Phoenix overpayment process
Phoenix overpayment letters: Keep an eye out for overpayments that are over six years old
The rushed Phoenix overpayment recovery plan launched earlier this year by the employer is already producing major errors and misleading information.
UPDATE: Have you received a Phoenix overpayment letter? Here’s what you need to know
In the fall of 2021, the Public Service Pay Centre launched the recovery process for Phoenix overpayments for thousands of PSAC members they believe were overpaid by the Phoenix pay system in 2016. Because of the six-year limitation period for the government to begin recovering these overpayments, the employer is rushing to send overpayment recovery letters to many PSAC members now.
PSAC members urged to file individual tax appeals for Phoenix damages
PSAC is encouraging members to fight for Phoenix general damages compensation to be tax-free by filing individual tax appeals to the Canada Revenue Agency this tax season.
Phoenix: six years and counting
PSAC calls on government to take urgent action
Phoenix general damages finally open to retired and former members
After months of waiting, retired and former PSAC members finally have access to Phoenix general damages.
Phoenix: PSAC members will finally be compensated for severe impacts
The Treasury Board Secretariat announced that claim compensation for severe impacts, a claims process for losses and damages related to the Phoenix pay system, is now available to PSAC members under the Phoenix damages agreement negotiated by PSAC in October 2020.
PSAC opposes new Phoenix overpayment recovery plan
PSAC has serious concerns with the new recovery plan because it significantly changes the way that PSAC and other bargaining agents negotiated how overpayments would be recovered.