Maharashtra judicial employees have intensified their statewide agitation seeking pay-scale parity with High Court staff for employees working in subordinate courts, with serving staff wearing black ribbons during duty on Friday and retired employees scheduled to hold sit-in protests on Saturday.
The second phase of the protest was launched by the Maharashtra State Judicial Employees Federation. Serving judicial employees participated by wearing black ribbons while continuing their regular duties, marking the federation’s demand for approval of a proposed revision in pay scales.
The federation said the agitation would continue on Saturday, when retired judicial employees would stage one-day sit-in protests outside district collectors’ offices across Maharashtra. The planned protests are intended to widen participation in the demand and bring the issue before the state administration at the district level.
According to the federation, judicial employees have been agitating since September 16 over the proposed pay-scale revision. The organisation said the proposal has been pending with the chief minister’s office since January 31, 2025, and is yet to receive final approval.
The demand centres on extending pay scales applicable to High Court employees to staff working in subordinate courts. Subordinate courts handle a substantial part of the state’s routine judicial administration, and their employees include personnel supporting case management, court records, filings and day-to-day courtroom operations. The supplied report does not specify the number of employees covered by the proposal or the financial implications of the requested revision.
The federation has urged the state government to approve the proposal immediately and appealed to serving and retired judicial employees across Maharashtra to participate actively in the second phase of the agitation. It has also called for an early resolution of the long-pending demand.
The planned sit-ins outside district collectors’ offices will be the next scheduled action in the federation’s protest programme. The state government’s final decision on the proposed pay-scale revision has not been reported in the supplied material.
