Gov’t corporations excluded from pay hike for state workers

Salary increase for employees working in government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs) will depend on the Governance Commission for Government-owned and-controlled corporations (GCG). Malacañang stressed this yesterday following President Aquino’s approval of the first tranche of pay increase for government workers under Executive Order No. 201. GOCCs were not included in President Aquino’s EO as the pay of GOCC personnel is governed by the Compensation and Position Classification System (CPCS). It was Senate President Franklin Drilon, an ally of President Aquino, who appealed for the increase of the GOCC pay scale. “It is about time that the compensation for personnel under GOCCs be adjusted if the government really wants to attract and retain highly competitive individuals in government service,” Drilon, author of the landmark Republic Act 10149 or the GOCC Governance Act of 2011, said. Drilon said that the GOCC Governance Act empowers the GCG to recommend to the President a [...]