The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, the Judicial Administration Body and the unions of the Federal Judicial Branch agreed on Saturday, November 7, 2026, that the performance evaluation of judicial career personnel will have no sanctioning effects and will not entail removal from office, and they lifted the national strike that began on Friday the 6th.
The agreement was reached at a meeting held on Saturday night at the headquarters of the Highest Court, after the Judicial Administration Body published General Agreement AG-POAJ-025/2026 in the Official Gazette of the Federation on November 5. According to Aristegui Noticias, the discontent arose because the regulation provided for subsequent ordinary evaluations in which an insufficient result referred the matter to the Plenary to apply grounds for removal from office. The mobilizations on Friday the 6th included the closure of facilities and road blockades in Mexico City. For Mexico, the episode illustrates how judicial career mechanisms are adjusted during the implementation of the reform to the Judicial Branch.
The original text regulated the evaluation of female and male secretaries, female and male court officers and judicial officials, with a diagnostic exercise for 2026 that would not generate labor consequences, according to Aristegui Noticias. As part of the changes, the extraordinary evaluations that the heads of jurisdictional bodies could request will be eliminated and the percentages of the criteria with subjective factors will be modified, according to the Supreme Court's statement. Presiding Minister Hugo Aguilar Ortiz held separate meetings with Jesús Gilberto González Pimentel, general secretary of the Union of Workers of the Federal Judicial Branch, and with Juan Alberto Prado Gómez, of the National Union for the Renewal of the Service of Federal Judicial Branch Workers. The substantive modifications to the General Agreement will be published soon in the DOF and permanent working tables will be installed.
The jurisdictional bodies of the Federal Judicial Branch will resume work as normal on Monday, November 9. The publication of the modifications in the Official Gazette of the Federation and the installation of the permanent working tables will be the next verification points of the agreement.
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