Court Clerk Unions to Protest in Front of Government on Friday

The protest will take place between 11.00 and 13.00 local time and will receive support from the Association of Romanian Court Clerks and the National Unions’ Block, according to union leader Catalin Traistaru.

The clerks are unhappy with high work volumes and request authorities to hire additional court personnel and draft a new statute of the profession, which would set the profession’s actual attributes. The protesters will also request internal regulations “corresponding to the reality of courts and prosecutor’s offices”, as well as unitary pay.

Union leaders also pointed out that successive salary laws relegated court clerks to the worst paid professional category in Romania’s justice system.

“If in the 2000’s the salary of a court clerk was about 70-80% of that of a judge, right now it is down to 25-30%, as the current justice minister has publicly admitted,” the Dicasterial union said in a statement issued on Thursday.

Further protest actions have been announced by the Publisind Federation for an indefinite amount of time, until the court clerk’s demands will be met.