In the current context, there are problems we absolutely have to fix.
I will let Mr. Linklater talk about the linkages between pay and the HR processes. I would like to speak to the culture within the federal government that caused us problems and delayed the processing of pay requests.
We have always processed transactions on a delayed basis. For instance, people didn't expect to receive their overtime pay the following week. It would take months. What's more, if someone was in an acting position, we weren't in the habit of adding their name to the system right away. It would be done eventually, at which point the person would receive the acting pay to which they were entitled.
The PeopleSoft system is designed to process transactions in real time. As soon as they are processed late, complex manual calculations are necessary. Initially, that was problematic for us, but now, much of that processing is automated.
To answer your question, I would say that it would work. Mr. Linklater may be able to speak to that further.