{"id":6203,"date":"2017-05-03T06:35:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/?p=6203"},"modified":"2017-05-10T07:03:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T12:03:42","slug":"emergency-pay-available-to-employees-on-maternity-parental-or-disability-leave-and-experiencing-phoenix-pay-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=6203","title":{"rendered":"Emergency pay available to employees on maternity, parental or disability leave and experiencing Phoenix pay problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6231\" src=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/PhoenixEmergPay.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/PhoenixEmergPay.png 600w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/PhoenixEmergPay-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/PhoenixEmergPay-150x94.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Following the court action taken by PSAC, along with 12\u00a0other unions, the <a href=\"http:\/\/psacunion.ca\/court-order-says-government-must-work-unions-fix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court obliged<\/a> the government to provide better access to help for Phoenix affected employees on disability, maternity, and parental leave.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, federal public service workers who are transitioning to maternity, parental or disability leave, and are not receiving benefit payments due to Phoenix, are entitled to a priority payment if normal wait times for processing these payments have been exceeded.<\/p>\n<p>These workers are entitled to 66% of the total income they would otherwise receive, not only the top up portion.<\/p>\n<p>If you are in this situation, send the following letter with the appropriate information included in <a href=\"mailto:add your manager's email address; info@psacunion.ca?subject=Emergency%20pay&amp;body=Dear%20Manager%20(insert%20name%20and%20email%20address)%3A%0A%0AOn%20(insert%20date)%20I%20went%20onto%20approved%20(maternity%2C%20parental%20or%20disability)%20leave.%C2%A0It%20has%20now%20been%20(xx)%20days%20since%20that%20leave%20began%2C%20and%20the%20necessary%20paper%20work%20to%20allow%20my%20(EI%20or%20disability)%20claim%20to%20be%20processed%20has%20not%20been%20generated%20by%20the%20phoenix%20pay%20system.%0A%0APlease%20immediately%20process%20a%20request%20for%20emergency%20or%20priority%20pay%20reflecting%20my%20full%20salary%20entitlement%2C%20as%20I%20currently%20find%20myself%20in%20circumstances%20of%20financial%20hardship%2C%20as%20per%20paragraph%20three%20of%20the%20letter%20sent%20to%20our%20department%20by%20Ms.%20Yaprak%20Baltacioglu%2C%20Secretary%20of%20the%20Treasury%20Board%20on%20March%2023%2C%202017%2C%20in%20compliance%20with%20the%20order%20of%20the%20Federal%20Court%20dated%20December%2022%2C%202016.%0A%0AThank%20you%20for%20your%20prompt%20attention%20to%20this%20matter%20which%20critically%20impacts%20my%20financial%20circumstances.%0A%0A%0A(Your%20full%20name)%0A(Your%20department)\">an email to your manager<\/a> and copy us at <a href=\"mailto:info@psacunion.ca\">info@psacunion.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:add your manager's email address; info@psacunion.ca?subject=Emergency%20pay&amp;body=Dear%20Manager%20(insert%20name%20and%20email%20address)%3A%0A%0AOn%20(insert%20date)%20I%20went%20onto%20approved%20(maternity%2C%20parental%20or%20disability)%20leave.%C2%A0It%20has%20now%20been%20(xx)%20days%20since%20that%20leave%20began%2C%20and%20the%20necessary%20paper%20work%20to%20allow%20my%20(EI%20or%20disability)%20claim%20to%20be%20processed%20has%20not%20been%20generated%20by%20the%20phoenix%20pay%20system.%0A%0APlease%20immediately%20process%20a%20request%20for%20emergency%20or%20priority%20pay%20reflecting%20my%20full%20salary%20entitlement%2C%20as%20I%20currently%20find%20myself%20in%20circumstances%20of%20financial%20hardship%2C%20as%20per%20paragraph%20three%20of%20the%20letter%20sent%20to%20our%20department%20by%20Ms.%20Yaprak%20Baltacioglu%2C%20Secretary%20of%20the%20Treasury%20Board%20on%20March%2023%2C%202017%2C%20in%20compliance%20with%20the%20order%20of%20the%20Federal%20Court%20dated%20December%2022%2C%202016.%0A%0AThank%20you%20for%20your%20prompt%20attention%20to%20this%20matter%20which%20critically%20impacts%20my%20financial%20circumstances.%0A%0A%0A(Your%20full%20name)%0A(Your%20department)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Email your manager\" src=\"http:\/\/psacunion.ca\/sites\/psac\/files\/small_np_email_850700_000000_0.png\" alt=\"Template email\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\u00a0<em>Click here to email your manager<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Following the court action taken by PSAC, along with 12\u00a0other unions, the court obliged the government to provide better access to help for Phoenix affected employees on disability, maternity, and parental leave. As a result, federal public service workers who are transitioning to maternity, parental or disability leave, and are not receiving benefit payments &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=6203\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Emergency pay available to employees on maternity, parental or disability leave and experiencing Phoenix pay problems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,169,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6232,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions\/6232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}