Bicycle leasing by joint committee: overview and FAQs (2026)

May 27, 2026

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Want to know if bicycle leasing is permitted under your joint committee (JC)? Then you’ve come to the right place. On this page, you will find: ‍

under which JCs bicycle leasing is currently permitted (2026);
why bicycle leasing may be permitted under some JCs, but not others (yet);
FAQs for employers and employees.

Why is bicycle leasing permitted under some JCs, but not others?

First thing to know: bicycle leasingis a form of flexible remuneration,where employees sacrifice part of their salary for a lease bicycle. However,that isn’t an option in every sector. Two things need to be in order:

1. Pay flexibility must be permitted within the sector

Employers may only offer bicycle leasing if the sectoral collective labour agreement permits it. Without that, any such salary sacrifice is considered a unilateral pay reduction, which is not lawful.

2. The end-of-year bonus must be flexible

In certain sectors, employees are paid according to sector-specific pay scales. They cannot sacrifice part of their gross monthly salary for a lease bicycle, as this would mean their pay would fall below their sectoral minimum. And that is also not lawful.

In these sectors, however, bicycle leasing is rendered possible by making the end-of-year bonus eligible for flexiblere muneration, thereby avoiding any dips in monthly pay. However, this also requires a separate collective labour agreement, in addition to the general authorisation for flexible remuneration.

Under which joint committees is bicycle leasing permitted? (2026)

Please note:

For these joint committees or sectors, bicycle leasing is possible via salary sacrifice. For each joint committee, it is specified whether bicycle leasing is also possible via use of the end-of-year bonus as flexible remuneration.
Is there a given percentage? This means that employees are only permitted to sacrifice a limited percentage of their end-of-year bonus – as set out in each relevant sectoral collective labour agreement.

Bike leasing per joint committee – o2o

JC no.	Joint committee name	Possible to sacrifice part of end-of-year bonus?
100	Auxiliary joint committee for blue-collar workers	NO
101	National joint mining commission	NO
102.01	Joint subcommittee for the hard-stone quarries and the quarries of hewn limestone in the province of Hainaut	NO
102.02	Workers of the hard-stone quarries and the quarries of hewn limestone in the provinces of Liège and Namur	NO
102.03	Workers in the porphyry quarries in the provinces of Walloon Brabant and Hainaut and the quartzite quarries in the province of Walloon Brabant	NO
102.04	Workers of the sandstone and quartzite quarries throughout the territory of the Kingdom of Belgium, except for the quartzite quarries in the province of Walloon Brabant	NO
102.05	Workers of the open-air china-clay and sand quarries in the provinces of Walloon Brabant, Hainaut, Liège, Luxembourg and Namur	NO
102.06	Workers of the open-air gravel and sand quarries in the provinces of Antwerp, West Flanders, East Flanders, Limburg and Flemish Brabant	NO
102.07	Workers of the limestone quarries, cement factories and lime kilns of the administrative district of Tournai	NO
102.08	Workers of the marble quarries and sawmills throughout the territory of the Kingdom of Belgium	NO
102.09	Joint subcommittee for fibre cement	NO
105	Workers of the non-ferrous metals sector	NO
106.01	Joint committee for cement factories	NO
106.02	Workers of the cement agglomerates sector	NO
106.03	Joint subcommittee for fibre cement	NO
107	Master tailors and sewing workers	NO
109	Joint committee for the clothing and ready-made garment industry	NO
110	Workers of the textile services sector	YES
111.01	Workers of the metalworking, machinery and electrical engineering sector	YES (50%)
111.02	Workers of the metalworking, machinery and electrical engineering sector	YES (50%)
111.03	Workers of the bridge-assembly and metal-framework construction sector	YES (50%)
112	Workers of the vehicle-garage sector	NO
113	Ceramics industry	NO
113.04	Joint committee for the tile-kiln industry	NO
114	Joint committee for the brickmaking industry	NO
115.02	Joint subcommittee for window-glass manufacturing	NO
115.03	Joint subcommittee for mirror manufacturing	NO
115.09	Auxiliary joint committee for the glass industry	NO
116	Workers of the chemical industry	NO
117	Workers of the petroleum industry and trade	NO
118	Workers of the food industry	NO
119	Food products trade	YES
120	Workers of the textile and knitwear industry	NO
120.01	Workers of the textile industry of the administrative district of Verviers	NO
120.03	Manufacture and trade of jute bags and substitute materials	NO
121	Joint Committee for the cleaning sector	NO
124	Workers of the construction industry	NO
125.02	Joint subcommittee for sawmills and related industries	NO
125.03	Joint subcommittee for the timber trade	NO
126	Workers of the upholstery and woodworking industry	YES (employees) / NO (blue-collar workers)
127	Workers of the fuel trade	NO
128	Joint Committee for the hides and leather industry and substitute products	NO
129	Workers in the production of pulp, paper and cardboard	NO
130	Joint Committee for the printing, graphic arts and newspaper industry	NO
130.02	Workers of the printing, graphic arts and newspaper industry (newspapers only)	NO
132	Workers of organisations carrying out technical agricultural and horticultural works	NO
133.01	Workers of the cigarette factories and mixed tobacco companies	NO
133.02	Workers in the manufacture of smoking, chewing and snuff tobacco	NO
133.03	Joint committee for companies manufacturing cigars and cigarillos	NO
136	Workers of the paper and cardboard processing industry	NO
139	Workers and employees of inland navigation	NO
140.01	Workers of bus and coach services (excluding public services)	NO
140.02	Workers of the joint subcommittee for taxis	YES (no conditions)
140.03	Joint subcommittee for road transport and logistics for third parties	NO
140.04	Joint committee for airport ground handling	NO
140.05	Workers of the removals, furniture storage and related activities sector	NO
142.01	Workers of metal recovery	NO
142.02	Workers of waste textile recovery	NO
142.03	Workers of paper recovery	NO
142.04	Joint committee for the recovery of miscellaneous products	NO
143	Joint committee for sea fishing	NO
144	Joint committee for agriculture	NO
145.01	Joint committee for floriculture	NO
145.02	Joint committee for grape growers	NO
145.03	Joint committee for tree nurseries	NO
145.04	Joint subcommittee for the planting and maintenance of parks and gardens	NO
145.05	Joint committee for fruit growing	NO
145.06	Joint committee for vegetable growing	NO
146	Workers of forestry	NO
148	Workers and employees of the joint committee for fur and small pelts	NO
149.01	Workers of electrical installation and distribution	NO
149.02	Workers of automotive bodywork	NO
149.03	Workers of precious metals	NO
149.04	Workers of the metal trade	NO
152.01	Joint subcommittee for the subsidised institutions of free education in the Flemish Community	NO
152.02	Subsidised institutions of free education in the French Community and the German-speaking Community	NO
200	Auxiliary joint committee for employees	YES
201	Employees of the independent retail sector	YES
202	Employees of the food retail sector	NO
202.01	Joint subcommittee for medium-sized food retail companies	YES
203	Employees of hard-stone quarries	NO
207	Employees of the chemical industry	NO
209	Employees of metal-manufacturing companies	YES (50%)
211	Joint committee for employees in the petroleum industry and trade	Limited – 50%
214	Employees of the textile and knitwear industry	NO
215	Employees of the clothing and garment-manufacture industry	NO
216	Notarial employees	NO
219	Joint committee for services and bodies for technical inspections and conformity assessment	NO
220	Employees of the food industry	YES
221	Employees of the paper industry	YES
222	Employees of the paper and cardboard processing industry	NO
223	National Joint Committee for sport	NO
224	Employees of the non-ferrous metals sector	NO (conversion into additional holiday days possible)
225.01	Employees of the institutions of subsidised free education in the Flemish Community	NO
225.02	Employees of the subsidised institutions of free education in the French Community and the German-speaking Community	NO
226	Employees of international trade, transport and logistics	Limited – 60%
227	Employees of the audiovisual sector	YES
301.01	National joint committee of the Port of Antwerp	NO
301.02	Port of Ghent	NO
301.03	Port of Brussels and Vilvoorde	NO
301.05	Workers and employees of the ports of Zeebrugge-Bruges, Ostend and Nieuwpoort	NO
302	Workers and employees of the hotel industry (Horeca)	NO
303	Workers and employees of the film industry	NO
303.03	Workers and employees of the cinema exploitation sector	NO
304	Joint Committee for the entertainment industry	NO
307	Workers and employees of brokerage and insurance agencies	YES (subject to conditions)
309	Workers and employees of stock exchange companies	NO
310	Workers and employees of banks	YES
311	Workers and employees of large retail businesses	YES
312	Workers and employees of department stores	NO
313	Workers and employees of pharmacies and tarification services	NO (end-of-year bonus may be granted in any form)
314	Hairdressing and beauty care sector	NO
315.01	Workers and employees of technical maintenance, assistance and training in the aviation sector	NO
316	Workers and employees of merchant shipping	NO
317	Workers and employees of security and/or surveillance services	YES
318.02	The joint committee of family care in Flanders	YES
319	Joint Committee for educational and residential institutions and services in Brussels-Capital (Cocom)	NO
319.01	Educational and residential institutions and services: Flemish Community	YES
319.02	Educational and residential institutions and services of the French Community, the Walloon Region and the German-speaking Community	NO
320	Workers and employees of funeral services	NO
321	Workers and employees of wholesalers-distributors of medicinal products	YES
322	Joint committee for temporary agency work and recognised organisations providing neighbourhood work or services	NO
322.01	Joint subcommittee for the organisations providing neighbourhood work or services	NO
323	Joint Committee for building management and service personnel	NO
326	Workers and employees of the gas and electricity utility sector	NO
327	Workers and employees of sheltered workshops, social workshops and tailored employment organisations	NO
327.01	The sheltered workshops subsidised by the Flemish Community or by the Flemish Community Commission, and the social workshops recognised and/or subsidised by the Flemish Community	NO
327.02	Sheltered workshops subsidised by the French Community Commission	NO
327.03	Sheltered workshops of the Walloon Region and the German-speaking Community	NO
328.01	Urban and regional transport of the Flemish Region	NO
328.02	Urban and regional transport of the Walloon Region	NO
328.03	Urban and regional transport of the Brussels-Capital Region	NO
329.01	Joint subcommittee for the socio-cultural sector of the Flemish Community	YES (subject to company-level collective labour agreement)
329.02	Joint subcommittee for the socio-cultural sector of the French-speaking and German-speaking Communities and the Walloon Region	NO
330.01	Joint subcommittee for the federal health services	YES
330.02	Joint subcommittee for the bicommunal health organisations	YES
330.03	Joint subcommittee for the dental-technology companies	YES
331	Flemish welfare and health sector	YES
332	French-speaking and German-speaking welfare and health sector	NO
333	Workers and employees of the joint committee for tourist attractions	NO
335	Technology and consultancy	YES (subject to company-level collective labour agreement)
337	Workers and employees of the non-profit sector	NO
340	Joint committee for orthopaedic technologies	YES (for employees)
341	Joint committee for mediation in banking and investment services	YES

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Got more specific questions?

Be sure to contact your social secretariat. They will be best equipped to answer questions relevant to your specific sector.

Bicycle leasing for public sector institutions

Some publicsector institutions also offer bicycle leasing. These currently include:

education;
defence;
Flemish government;
Federal government;
Walloon government;
Flemish local authorities;
Walloon local authorities;
emergency-response zones;
police.

There is an important condition for public sector institutions:there must be a legal basis that grants employees in a specific sector accessto bicycle leasing through flexible remuneration.

If there is a legal basis for this, public sector institutions havetwo options: they can start bicycle leasing through a Central Purchasing Body,or they can launch a procurement procedure (tender).

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Bicycle leasing by joint committee: overview and FAQs (2026)

Why is bicycle leasing permitted under some JCs, but not others?

Under which joint committees is bicycle leasing permitted? (2026)

Got more specific questions?

Bicycle leasing for public sector institutions

Book a meeting with our experts

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