The forgotten about meal vouchers | EUROtoday

Office pocket book. The 2025 meal vouchers have expired. The deadline to make use of them was February 28! The unspent steadiness will partly return to the businesses’ social and financial committees (CSE). VTC, police, farmers, dwelling staff and even Deliveroo supply folks do not care. Although they don’t have very excessive incomes, they don’t have meal vouchers.

In 1913, the primary company restoration regulation, equity was not the topic. Nor in 1960, with the duty of the refectory if at the least 25 staff requested it. Nor in 1967, the date of creation of the system of co-financing by employers and staff of those new “good meals”.

The social objective of the meal voucher was then to permit corporations to offer a wholesome place for workers meals exterior the institution for many who didn’t have premises. The 1967 ordinance thus freed employers from the duty to have a catering house so long as they offered the well-known “restaurant vouchers”. From the outset, the meal voucher is subsequently not a proper, however a social benefit left to the discretion of the employer.

So, “the Ministry of the Interior does not issue meal vouchers”illustrates a spokesperson for the National Commission for Meal Vouchers (CNTR). Deliveroo and Uber Eats are customers, however their supply folks don’t obtain any. In whole, solely 5.5 million staff profit from it: non-public sector staff since 1967 and public sector brokers, underneath circumstances since 2001.

Additional remuneration

But no matter its identify (Table Check, Lunch Check, Restaurant Ticket or Restaurant Pass), lately its use has modified. Since the sharp variations in inflation after the Covid-19 pandemic, each non-public and public staff commonly pay for his or her groceries in “restaurant vouchers”.

This exemption was launched as an emergency measure to guard buying energy in 2022 and prolonged till the tip of 2026. The catering voucher for the day’s meal has thus develop into extra remuneration for 40% of staff. “Today, usage is 70% in catering and 30% in distribution”assures Ilan Ouanounou, common supervisor of Edenred France.

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