The Puducherry State Municipal and Commune Panchayat Workers Association on Friday staged a demonstration near the Legislative Assembly demanding the VII pay commission scales.
The protesters took out a rally from the office of the Local Administration Department to picket the Assembly. The police took 150 workers into custody. They were later released.
Anand Ganapathy, coordinator of the association, said The municipality should also fill vacancies on compassionate grounds by employing children and dependants of employees who had died in service.