The employers could provide meal tickets as card that function as an electronic wallet, according to a project of law approved by the Chamber of Deputies and sent for promulgation. The new provisions would allow employers to opt for meal tickets in paper or electronic form.The project of law approved Monday, October 14, 2013, by a majority amends Law 142/1998 on granting meal tickets.

What is the meal ticket in electronic format?

The meal tickets as electronic card represent electronic voucher values, excluding the allowance for individual feeding of employees under the new provisions adopted by parliament.

Issued in the form of a card, these vouchers would have different characteristics but a credit card.

What functions will NOT have electronic tickets:

• There is not an account of the card for the employee;
• No cash function on the terminals.

On the meal ticket card form will be submitted or stored:

• Full name of the employee in the right to use the meal ticket;
• Name and address of the issuer;
• Period of validity;
• Prohibition to be used for buying cigarettes or alcohol products.

The supply for the electronic meal tickets will be made exclusively with their nominal value, provided by the employer.

Ahead of the support, what are the different between electronic meal tickets and the ones on paper?

If meal tickets on paper support does not allow for the rest in purchasing products if the value of purchases was less than the nominal printed on ticket, with electronic tickets  can be debit strictly fixed amount for items purchased.

The obligations of employers in electronically meal tickets

After consultation with employees, the employer can choose the type of meal tickets. Moreover, the company is the one that will pay to the issuers of electronic meal tickets both the nominal value and the costs of issuing the electronic support.

• nominal value meal tickets, either on paper or electronically, will not be diminished in any way
• electronic tickets distribution will be made by issuing unit, according to the same project of law.

The value of meal tickets will be electronically transferred to employees per month in the last decade of each month for the following month, corresponding to days worked, if the employer has paid the amount to the issuer.

The meal ticket, regardless of the medium in which it is expressed, has a value voucher particular tax regime, according to the Commission for labor and social protection.

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