Ceridian Corporation Expects to Announce New Chief Executive Officer Shortly

October 2, 2006

MINNEAPOLIS, October 2, 2006 - Ceridian Corporation (NYSE: CEN) announced today it anticipated its search for a new Chief Executive Officer would be completed shortly. L. White Matthews, III, Chairman of the Board of Directors, said "Our search for a new Chief Executive Officer has gone well. We anticipate the announcement of our new Chief Executive Officer within the next week or so. The Board and Company appreciate that Ronald L. Turner, Ceridian's current President and Chief Executive Officer, has agreed to postpone his retirement during this short transition."

Ceridian Corporation (www.ceridian.com) is an information services company serving businesses and employees in the United States, Canada and Europe. Ceridian is one of the top human resources outsourcing companies in each of its markets, and offers a broad range of human resource services, including payroll, benefits administration, tax compliance, HR information systems and employee advisory programs. Through its Comdata subsidiary, Ceridian is a major payment processor and issuer of credit cards, debit cards and stored value cards, primarily for the trucking and retail industries in the United States.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The statements regarding Ceridian Corporation contained in this release that are not historical in nature, particularly those that utilize terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "likely," "expects," "anticipates," "estimates," "believes" or "plans," or comparable terminology, are forward-looking statements based on current expectations and assumptions, and entail various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements. Important factors known to Ceridian that could cause such material differences are identified and discussed from time to time in Ceridian's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including matters arising from the SEC investigation, the prior restatements of our financial statements, the investigation conducted by the Audit Committee, the pending shareholder litigation, the failure to timely comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, volatility associated with Comdata's fuel price derivative contracts and those factors which are discussed in Ceridian's Annual Report on Form 10-K, for the year ended December 31, 2005, and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2006 and June 30, 2006, which factors are also incorporated herein by reference.

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