E-bikes for civil servants: Bremen wants to develop credit concept – news from Bremen

E-bikes are practical, but not cheap. The SPD, the Greens and the Left rely on funding, including for public service employees. (Tobias Hase / dpa)

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Those who ride to work by bike instead of the car are doing good for themselves and the environment. Many employers have recognized this and come up with models for their employees in which the company buys or leases bicycles or e-bikes and makes them available to employees. They in turn pay the installments by converting part of their salaries. The public service as a major employer in the country should also offer something similar for its around 47,000 employees, believes the red-green-red coalition.

“The public service is also fundamentally obliged to make its contribution to the achievement of the climate targets,” says a joint application by the SPD, the Greens and the Left for a concept to promote e-bikes for teachers, police officers and administrative staff, for example. From the applicant’s point of view, it could also make the public service more attractive if employees were supported, above all, in the purchase of comparatively expensive e-bikes and could then use the bikes for business and private purposes. So far, so easy. The question of how such a concept might look in practice becomes more complicated.

Legal provisions apply to civil servants

Copying the leasing models from the economy would not work for the majority of public service workers in Bremen, namely for civil servants and those who are paid according to the state tariff. Legal provisions apply to them, which, to put it simply, prohibit that parts of the salary do not finance services or things like e-bikes that are not stable in value.

“In the public service there are collective agreements for deferred compensation for the purpose of building up an additional company pension,” the civil service law is quoted in the submission. Only disadvantages such as tax burdens are to be accepted for this, because the converted income helps to secure the standard of living in old age.

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From the coalition’s point of view, increasing the salaries of employees and civil servants for e-bikes by extra allowances is out of the question. Bremen would thus also violate the provisions of the collective bargaining association of the federal states (TdL), which only allows allowances if all 15 member states agree to the TdL. Berlin is currently threatened with exclusion from the group because the Senate there has implemented an allowance for company bicycles without TdL approval.

As long as the TdL does not agree on models of salary conversion, as they already exist for employees in the federal tariff, interest-free loans could be the solution from the perspective of the finance department. Then the civil servants and employees would receive their normal salaries and use it to pay the installments for e-bikes or bicycles, either as a purchase or lease. “It would be a small measure that would not cost us any more money and that could motivate public employees to switch to cycling,” says State Councilor Martin Hagen (Greens).

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