Phoenix Pay backlog down four per cent in June

It’s tenuous, but it’s definitely a trend: the government’s massive backlog of pay transactions is coming down.
Public Services and Procurement Canada, the federal department in charge of the $1-billion, decade-long Phoenix Pay project, reported Thursday that it had processed 13,000 more pay transactions than entered the system between May 30 and June 27, the latest pay period.
This marks the fifth straight federal government pay period with a net decline in transactions awaiti