A machine-readable API that encodes Canada's federal collective agreement rules — rates of pay, leave entitlements, acting pay, salary protection — into a single, auditable source of truth.
The Government of Canada pays 431,000 current and former employees biweekly — $40.1 billion a year across 13.4 million transactions. The rules governing those payments live in approximately 150 collective agreements, each with unique provisions for rates of pay, overtime, leave, acting assignments, and more.
As the Government migrates from Phoenix to Dayforce, an independent assessment identified 18 complex, GC-specific gaps that the new platform's planned enhancements will not address. These gaps — mass salary revision, establishing rates of pay, and acting administration — require deep knowledge of collective agreement rules that no off-the-shelf payroll system can provide.
Today, that knowledge lives in PDF documents, spreadsheets, and the heads of experienced compensation advisors. It's fragile, inconsistent, and impossible to audit at scale.
ACCORD (API des règles des conventions collectives) translates collective agreement provisions into structured, machine-readable rules. Instead of a human reading a 200-page PDF to determine an employee's correct rate of pay, a system queries the API and gets an authoritative, traceable answer.
Post-Phoenix, the Government needs confidence that every department migrating to Dayforce will see accurate pay from day one. ACCORD provides the authoritative rules layer that bridges what Dayforce can do natively and what the GC uniquely requires.
A single source of truth for compensation rules — the kind of governance that post-Phoenix accountability demands.
If the GC moves off Dayforce, the rules API still works. Collective agreement knowledge isn't trapped in one vendor's platform.
Validates calculations during parallel runs and early production — when the cost of errors is highest and trust is most fragile.
Every API response traces back to the specific collective agreement article, TBS directive, and rule. Ready for OAG review from day one.
ACCORD currently encodes rules from 26 Core Public Administration collective agreements, covering the majority of federal public servants. The framework is designed to scale to all ~150 agreements, including separate employers.
Domains currently covered include rates of pay, vacation leave, overtime provisions, and acting pay rules. Additional domains — bereavement, designated paid holidays, severance — are in active development.
Canadian data residency. Canadian company. No foreign dependency for the interpretation of Canadian collective agreements.
Built by professionals with direct experience in federal compensation policy, collective agreement interpretation, and public service data analytics.
Advanced analytical capabilities for pattern detection, anomaly identification, and predictive compliance risk — beyond simple rule checking.
Update once when a collective agreement is renegotiated — every downstream system, department, and calculation gets the new rules automatically.
ACCORD is currently in active development with a target of audit-ready, bilingual deployment by June 2026. We welcome conversations with departments, TBS, and compensation stakeholders.
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