Choose a byrådspolitiker or a regionsrådsmedlem to keep free for three months, then they SHALL receive the salary in the period. The politicians are simply being forced to get the salary into your account.
It sounds baroque, but such are the rules of the area.
– I asked if I could forsake my salary, but I could not, explaining the Liberal party’s member of parliament Morten Dahlin.
He is also councillor in the Count, but have chosen to take a leave of absence from the work the coming three months in order to focus on the manager position in the Parliament.
Morten Dahlin has chosen to donate the money from the byrådsarbejde, he’s going to not perform, to Count Ungdomsbrandvæsen.
– I would have preferred that I could just renounce me the money, but it can’t. I do not think that I need to get taxpayers ‘money down in the pocket, when I take a voluntary leave of absence because of work,” says Morten Dahlin, who considers the case of approximately 20,000 kroner after tax over the three months.
A member of a local council receives a fixed remuneration, the 89.314 kr. annually.
In municipalities with a population of over 80,000 inhabitants, represent the consideration, however, 107.178 kr., and in the
the city of Copenhagen constitutes the consideration 125.039 kr.
A local councillor, who has one or more children under ten years of age and residing in the home, get a tillægsvederlag, which constitute 13.819 kr. annually.
in Addition addition to download for the work of the committee, city councillors sit on.
A member of the committee of the regions serves 107.534 kr. annually.
the member Has one or more children under ten years of age and residing in the home, giving it a tillægsvederlag on 13.819 kr. annually.
There can also be addition to download for committee work in the regional councils.
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the Rules, which gives politicians a salary, even if they keep free, can be found in the so-called vederlagsbekendtgørelser for byrådspolitikere and regionsrådsmedlemmer.
Herein saith, that the consideration ends only, if you ‘for a continuous period of 3 months’ has not performed his duties.
in Addition, it pointed out that those politicians are ‘obliged to receive’ the benefits.
the government believes the social and interior minister, Astrid Krag (S), there is a need for a critical look at the rules.
‘There must of course be space for a period of time is away, for example because of maternity and illness. But if you are away in order to spend time on his folketingsarbejde, going out to travel or similar, so I understand well the discussion, whether it is reasonable to get consideration – even though you don’t want it. That is why I also know to go the rules, together with denmark and Danish Regions,’ it sounds in a written comment to Extra Blade.
the Danish people’s party group chairman, Peter Skaarup, fear, however, that the review of the rules will drag out.
– Maybe we will have to make a motion in the Parliament, which instructs Astrid Krag to get the rules changed. We can’t continue to talk. The danes can’t understand it here, he says.
Also at the party, do you believe that there is an urgent need to change the rules:
– It is baroque, far-fetched and a waste of money, such as it is today. I think it contributes to the politikerlede, which is unhealthy for democracy, says the party’s demokratiordfører, Rosa Lund.
