Travel between home and work
Railcards are the most advantageous solution for your employees to travel between work and home.
As an employer, you are legally bound to contribute to the cost of these rail cards; this is the employer’s contribution. In this context, you may restrict yourself to the minimum laid down by Law.
The employer’s contribution may also be higher than the legally-required minimum. For more information, see our page on choice of employer’s contribution.
Lighten your administrative burden
The basic principle is as follows: your employee pays 100% of the price at the ticket office. As employer, you then reimburse the employer’s contribution to your employees.
However, this reimbursement of the employer’s contribution requires considerable administrative work.
So the SNCB has developed a solution designed to simplify your administration and make it virtually disappear: the third party pays contract
When validating a Railcard, your employee only pays his or her share, and the SNCB invoices you for the employer’s contribution.
Decide yourself how much you want to contribute.
Your contribution may be as much as 80% of the transport cost, or even more.
In this case, you as an employer can benefit from the advantages offered by the authorities in relation to free travel between home and work
If you offer your employees free transport between home and work, you can enter into a third party pays contract on line (only available in French or Dutch) and benefit from additional administrative advantages.