Travel Expenses
Questions

There is no statutory regulation for travel allowances. An employer is therefore not obliged to reimburse your travel expenses. Many collective labor agreements contain stipulations about a travel expenses scheme. Some companies give their employees a standard travel allowance. Other companies reimburse the costs of bus, train and tram. As a temporary worker you receive the expense allowances of the company where you work at that time, insofar as OPUS. may pay out these expense allowances net and the expense allowances are necessary for the performance of your job.

The travel allowance usually depends on the distance between your home and work. The employer can reimburse 19 euro cents tax-free for every kilometer the employee travels, regardless of the means of transport used. What you are actually entitled to depends on the travel expenses scheme of the client where you are currently working.

Some companies will help you with the travel costs based on the fares of public transport. To be reimbursed for the costs you have incurred, you must submit the tickets (copy of tickets or a transaction overview of the OV chip card) with a claim form. Only fully and correctly completed claim forms will be processed. We recommend that you keep the original tickets.

If, at the employer's request, you use your own car to perform your work, the employer may pay a mileage allowance for this. The condition is that you accurately keep track of the number of kilometers driven, the addresses of the companies visited and the data. The reimbursement is a maximum of 19 cents net untaxed per kilometer.