Ground zero in the battle to stop the Phoenix pay virus from spreading

No one thought it would come to this.
Miramichi and Shediac should have been working in tandem. Instead, two years after the launch of the unfortunate Phoenix pay system, these New Brunswick towns find themselves in an awkward embrace of technology and management gone wrong.
Miramichi of course is the epicentre of the government’s frantic effort to fix Phoenix — the deeply flawed decade-long project to modernize and consolidate a pay system that affects 300,000 government employees,