MEAL VOUCHERS
Meal vouchers are one of many employee benefits at Palacký University, Faculty of Arts. Meal vouchers are paid retrospectively, for each day actually worked. Originally, meal vouchers are issued by law so that an employee can buy lunch for them on a working day, during the lunch break. Therefore, if an employee uses the university canteen for lunch, he is not entitled to a meal voucher for the day. If the employee is on a business trip, ill, on holiday or temporarily incapacitated, he or she will not be entitled to a meal voucher for the specific days.
What can I use the Meal Vouchers for?
Meal vouchers are primarily intended for the purchase of food and should provide employees with at least one hot meal a day. So you can use them in various restaurants and food establishments. Furthermore, various types of food and soft drinks can be purchased for them, usually without any accompanying restrictions.
If meal vouchers could also be used to pay for other goods, their original meaning would disappear. That is why they cannot be used to pay for alcohol, tobacco products, drugstore goods or other non-food products. However, sometimes you may find that sellers are breaking this rule so that they don’t lose customers.
Where to use the Meal Vouchers?
There are many possibilities, where to use the Sodexo Gastro Pass Voucher.
You can find all the options on the original website (also in English). On the website orientation (Tag the priorities):
- Voucher “Gastro Pass”
- Locality – Olomouc
- Type of place – Restaurant, Cafe, Supermarkets, etc.
What is the Meal Voucher?
In the Czech Republic, meal vouchers are among the relatively common and popular employee benefits. Although these coupons should serve primarily as currency for which you can get something to eat during your lunch break, people usually save them and use them to pay for larger purchases. However, not all stores accept meal vouchers and in certain chains you can only use some types of these coupons and meal voucher cards.
Once the employer decides to introduce meal vouchers, he must provide them to all employees without distinction. Each employee is then entitled to a meal voucher for all days worked, when his shift lasted longer than 3 hours (overtime is not included). The employer pays 55% of its value, the remaining 45% must be paid by the employee himself, while the amount will be deducted from his salary.
For employers, meal vouchers represent a tax deductible expense. However, the contribution for these coupons is not subject to income tax or health and social insurance contributions.
