According to information from the “Rheinische Post”, some employers will pass on the 49-euro ticket for local public transport to their employees at a subsidized rate. For example, the Bayer Group wants to make the ticket available to all employees at a discounted price of EUR 34.30 per month, the newspaper reported in its Tuesday edition.
“The news about the introduction of the Deutschlandticket as a discounted job ticket has met with a very large and unanimously positive response among our employees,” a Bayer spokesman was quoted as saying.
According to the report, Vodafone is also considering a discount for employees. “We are striving for advantageous offers for our employees and are in negotiations,” said a Vodafone spokesman. A spokesman for Ergo-Versicherung told the newspaper that the aim is to offer the Deutschlandticket to all employees at all locations. The company will give a subsidy of 20 euros.
A subsidized offer of the Deutschland-Ticket is also considered safe at the post office in Bonn, because job tickets have already been subsidized to a large extent, the newspaper reported. The details were just being worked out. The WDR in Cologne said on request that employees could book the Germany ticket for the price of 15 euros a month. This is possible because the subsidies for job tickets are transferred.
However, not all employers wanted to subsidize the Germany ticket, the report said. For example, Telekom said it wanted to let the previous offer of a job ticket expire on May 1st because the Germany ticket “represents a much more flexible and also cheaper alternative”. A subsidy is “not planned”.
The 49-euro ticket is to be introduced in Germany on May 1st. It should apply to all local public transport in Germany, i.e. regional trains, buses, trams, underground and suburban trains. The monthly ticket for local transport, which is valid nationwide, is intended to encourage people to switch to public transport.
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