MPs salaries to fall to 56,000 crowns per month in 2011

The basic salaries of Members of Parliament and Senators should be 56,000 crowns per month in 2011, according to a proposal from the Ministry of Labour, or 3,000 crowns less than this year. The basic pay for ministers would drop almost 6,000 to 107.000 crowns. The salaries of judges will return to 2009 pay grades of 54.000 crowns. The Czech Constitutional Court recently overturned a four-percent reduction in the salaries of the judges in the Czech Republic citing a previous verdict which declared that the salaries of judges had to be stable and could not be cut.