We are retired PAGCOR employees who were unfairly excluded from retirement benefits under the Compensation and Position Classification System (CPCS).

In 2016, Executive Order No. 203 granted these benefits and made them effective across all GOCCs, including PAGCOR. However, its implementation was later suspended—and when the CPCS was reintroduced through Executive Order No. 150 (2021), an arbitrary cutoff date was imposed.

👉 As a result, retirees who left service before October 5, 2021 were excluded.

This exclusion is unjust, unconstitutional, and deeply inhumane—especially for those of us who gave decades of public service.

📣 Latest Development

We have now formally filed a Petition before the Supreme Court seeking justice and correction of this long-standing inequity.

At the heart of our case is a fundamental constitutional question:

Can the government refuse to implement a law that has already taken effect—and in doing so, deny rightful benefits to those who served under it?

We believe the answer is clear: it cannot.

📖 Background

2016 – EO 203 issued
✔ Approved and made CPCS effective for all GOCC employees
2017 – EO 36 issued
❌ Suspended implementation of CPCS
2021 – EO 150 issued
✔ Re-implemented CPCS
❌ BUT imposed a cutoff date excluding earlier retirees
 
⚖️ Why This Is Wrong

This exclusion:

❌ Did not exist in EO 203
❌ Was introduced later through executive action, not legislation
❌ Arbitrarily divides similarly situated employees
❌ Penalizes those who served earlier—and often longer

Even more troubling:

👉 The CPCS was later restored with equal or even greater benefits, proving there was no real justification for excluding us.

💔 The Human Impact

Many of us are now:

Senior citizens
Facing health challenges
Living on significantly reduced retirement benefits
Yet we were among those who:

Helped build PAGCOR from its early years
Served during times of lower pay and fewer benefits
Contributed to national revenues and social programs
Some were even absorbed from the defunct PCOC without receiving separation benefits.

Kami ang naglingkod… pero kami ang naiwan.
 
🎯 Our Call
We respectfully call on:

The Office of the President
The Governance Commission for GOCCs (GCG)
PAGCOR

to correct this injustice.

We urge the government to:

✔ Recognize and extend CPCS coverage to all retirees affected by the EO 150 cutoff
✔ Amend or override the arbitrary cutoff date
✔ Apply CPCS-based retirement benefits to retirees who served under EO 203
✔ Uphold the Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and social justice
✔ Honor the lifelong service of public servants

🙏 Appeal

We do not seek privilege.

We seek fairness.
We seek dignity.
We seek what the law already granted—but was never given.

Let our retirement be a time of security and respect—not uncertainty and hardship.

✊ Stand With Us

If you believe in fairness for public servants,
if you believe laws should be honored—not ignored,

👉 Please support and share this petition.

Together, let us correct this injustice.

#JusticeForPAGCORRetirees
#CPCSJustice
#WalangMaiiwan