The Flemish Parliament is introducing a 5% cent pay cut on its own wages. At the end of December 2019, a resolution to this effect was already unanimously approved in Parliament, but it had still not been implemented two years later. In order to get all the paperwork in order, it was decided to implement the reduction from 1 January 2022. It will also apply to mayors and city councillors: they accumulate two sources of income, which are capped so that they can never earn more than 150% of their parliamentary salary.
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