“She has served our department in a variety of leadership roles in this branch since 2005, has had a remarkable career and has made significant contributions to the public service.”<\/p>\n
Fortin is one of several architects of Ottawa’s payroll modernization plan,\u00a0which has caused financial hardship for tens of thousands of public servants and their families. Workers have been underpaid, overpaid\u00a0or not paid at all since Ottawa implemented the new Phoenix program\u00a0last February.<\/p>\n
As assistant deputy minister responsible for the accounting, banking\u00a0and compensation branch of the department, Fortin\u00a0had extensive involvement with the planning, launch\u00a0and subsequent attempts to resolve problems related to\u00a0Phoenix.<\/p>\n
Fortin\u00a0will be replaced by Alex\u00a0Lakroni, a former assistant\u00a0deputy minister who recently led the Canada Post Corporation Mandate Review.<\/p>\n
“Alex will bring a strong track record of financial management to his new role,” the memo says.<\/p>\n
Department turnover<\/h2>\n
The announcement of Fortin’s\u00a0retirement comes after another senior bureaucrat involved in the Phoenix pay controversy was shuffled out of her role last fall.<\/p>\n
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Rosanna Di Paola was shuffled out of her role as associate assistant deputy minister of Public Services and Procurement Canada last fall. (Ashley Burke\/CBC)<\/p>\n
Rosanna DiPaola, who served as an\u00a0associate assistant\u00a0deputy minister at PSPC\u00a0and also had extensive involvement with the pay modernization program, was relieved of her decision-making duties and\u00a0given a new “special advisory” role.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fortin did not personally respond to questions from the CBC about her retirement.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson from her office, James Stott, said in an email that “Fortin’s retirement was a planned, personal decision.”<\/p>\n
No managers have been fired\u00a0as a direct result of the bungled implementation of Phoenix.<\/p>\n
Pay problems continue<\/h2>\n
PSPC\u00a0won’t\u00a0release the total\u00a0number of employees who have experienced problems since the launch of Phoenix.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As of July 1, at least 80,000 workers had been paid incorrectly; however, the department won’t\u00a0say exactly how many employees have come forward to complain\u00a0since that date.<\/p>\n
PSPC officials have explained it is tracking the number of transactions being processed, rather than\u00a0the number of people who have\u00a0experienced problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The government missed its own self-imposed deadline to clear that backlog by Oct. 31,\u00a02016.<\/p>\n
At the department’s last technical briefing on the Phoenix system, it said 10,000 employees were still waiting for their issues to be resolved.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The department blamed complicated cases, with problems that predated the new system for the slow resolution time.<\/p>\n
Since pay problems gained national attention last summer, Ottawa has hired more than 200 compensation advisors to resolve pay issues\u00a0and opened a call centre in Toronto to field inquiries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The system was supposed to save the government $70 million per year as of 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But because of the additional staffing hires, and other complications, problems have cost $50 million to fix.<\/p>\n
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