Phoenix ’disaster’ due to government culture of avoiding responsibility: Senate

The pay “fiasco” affecting federal government employees was largely the result of a bureaucratic culture of avoiding responsibility that will require closer political oversight before launching similarly complex projects in the future, says a Senate study of the Phoenix pay system.
The system, brought online more than two years ago under the intention of streamlining pay for the government’s nearly 300,000 workers and saving taxpayers $70 million per year, has instead cost near