SC places public attorneys’ pay at par with prosecutors

PUBLIC Attorney’s Office (PAO) Chief Atty. Persida Rueda-Acosta lauded Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno and all the associate justices for empowering her agency by giving its chief and lawyers the special rank of and salary enjoyed by a Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor.

This came about after the High Court came out with a 33-page decision junking a petition filed by the Career Executive Service Board (CESB) against the Civil Service Commission (CSC) covering the officials of PAO as the full court ruled to dismiss the petition for certiorari and prohibition for lack of merit.