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The House of Commons government operations committee met yesterday to discuss the problems with Phoenix, the government's new pay system. About 80,000 public servants have been…

Last week, CAPE received news that the government’s new pay system, Phoenix, had security flaws that may have compromised our members’ private information. Over the course of several months, thousands of public service employees’ private information may have been accessible to some 70,000 employees.

Since the implementation of the Phoenix pay and benefits system, we have been hearing from more and more members experiencing issues with their pay.

In an electronic vote held from June 15 to 28, CAPE members voted in favour of two of the three proposals put forward by the union’s National Executive Committee. They approved the association’s two-year budget and the proposal to allocate 75% of year-end budget surpluses to the union’s Defence Fund. However, they rejected the proposal for a progressive dues structure.

This is National Public Service Week – a time our employer, the federal government, has set aside to celebrate the importance of the work performed by all federal public service employees. Accordingly, numerous special activities have been organized in the departments and agencies.

Some great news landed in our inbox yesterday. In a letter addressed to bargaining agents, Treasury Board Minister Scott Brison agreed to interim measures that would allow us to bargain like Bill C-4 had never existed.

CAPE was delighted to learn of the announcement by the Treasury Board President that the government intended to revoke Division 17 of the Conservative government’s Bill C-4, which had rewritten the rules of collective bargaining when it was passed in 2013.

CAPE President Emmanuelle Tremblay and TR Vice-President André Picotte appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Official Languages, earlier today, where they submitted a detailed brief on the Translation Bureau.

Diversity makes us stronger. That's why CAPE is proud to be taking part in a series of events aimed at celebrating pride and putting an end to bullying.

The federal budget tabled today sent a clear signal that Canada's economic growth can be strengthened by valuable public services – services that are delivered by a non-partisan, impartial federal public service employees, who are experienced in providing evidence-based analysis.