> Er werd niet vermeld dat ze op de loonlijst van bpost bleven. “Om alle belangenvermenging te vermijden zullen ze vanaf juni op de payroll van het kabinet komen”, citeert De Tijd het kabinet-De Sutter. Dat ontkent verder dat de betaling van de kabinetsmedewerkers door bpost tot botsende belangen heeft geleid.

> Volgens minister De Sutter werd al drie maanden geleden beslist om de medewerkers van de loonlijst van bpost te halen.

I call her bluff. It shouldn’t have happened in the first place, but this timeline is literally unbelievable.

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  2. This whole situation makes people worry about whether the minister has
    been making honest decisions, and if there are any conflicts of interest
    involved. Imo to make sure people
    continue to trust the government, it would be best for the minister to
    step down.

  3. If there is no “belangenvermenging”, why is Bpost, a private company, paying the wages of government employees ? Isn’t De Sutter stealing from a private company ?

    If there is “belangenvermenging”, well, then there is “Belangenvermenging”

  6. If you fill a bath and the next day you come back and find that the bath is empty, it’s safe to conclude that the water has gone somewhere.

  7. It’s interesting how practices from the past are suddenly a huge issue when a left-leaning female is in charge.

  9. Postbode, doet 2 rondes, wordt 1 keer betaald.

    Topmannen bij Bpost, doen 1 job, worden 2 keer betaald

    I too would like some free money

  10. Guys,it’ ok. They’re just *trans*-employees. /s (it’s just a light joke, please don’t ban me for making a joke about transgender people, k?).

  11. >I call her bluff. It shouldn’t have happened in the first place, but this timeline is literally unbelievable.

    Unfortunately this is how it worked for the last few decades. Sure, this shouldn’t have happened in all those years, but it’s common practice historically.

    And – except for the financial issue – it’s not something bad. Detachment is needed to make things easier by putting people with the right experience closer.

  12. So, they were “detached” by bpost to the government. This always means they remain on the payroll of the sending entity. The newspaper articles now saying that it was known they were “detached” but not that they were on the bpost payroll are, frankly, written by idiots. This sounds a lot like someone wanted to create a scandal.

    Whether or not that’s any issue really depends on what they were sent to the government to do exactly. Their presence there doesn’t automatically mean anything untoward was actually going on.

  13. The principle of detachering is extremely common in all ministerial cabinets. All cabinets borrow staff from their administrations, in this case postal services, so yeah bpost. This is no smoking gun. Unless there is some proof of actual misconduct here, I’m not picking up any pitchforks or lighting any torches.

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