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On 1st September 2024, STIB fares will increase. This increase is therefore likely to have an impact on you if your employees use the STIB network for their commuting.
As an employer, you are required to contribute to the travel costs of your employees who get to work by public transport (tram, bus, metro or river bus).
Since July 2020, reimbursement for the use of public transport has been due from the 1st kilometre onwards.
A distinction must be made according to how public transport fares are defined:
This means that the employer's contribution to the price of the rail season ticket must be compared with the actual price of transport at 75%.
If the amount of the contribution in the rail season ticket is greater than 75% of the real cost of transport, the employer's contribution can be limited to 75% of the real cost of transport.
On the other hand, if the amount of the contribution in the rail season ticket is lower than 75% of the real cost of transport, the employer's contribution will be limited to the amount of the train season ticket.
The indexation of STIB fares therefore means that the real cost for your employee increases if he or she travels on this network. From 1st September:
As the price of the STIB season ticket is fixed regardless of the distance actually travelled by your worker, your contribution is determined on the basis of the actual price of the season ticket.
For a monthly ticket, the contribution is currently 71.8% of €49, i.e. €35.18.
When your worker renews his subscription at the new rate, the monthly contribution will be 71.8% of €52, i.e. €37.34.
For an annual season ticket, it's the same principle. A worker who has just renewed his annual season ticket will only feel the increase when he renews the ticket. Your intervention will then increase from €358.28 to €373.36.
Attention! Many sectors provide for more advantageous interventions for workers.
Partena Professional's sector information allows you to take note of the sector provisions specific to your joint committee.
Source: Decree of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region of 4 July 2024 on the prices of passenger transport on the urban and regional transport network of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgian Official Gazette of 24/07/2024.
Author: Alexia Buyl and Laurence Philippe
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