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Leader sur son marché depuis plus de 50 ans, Edenred ne cesse d'innover, pour apporter aux entreprises et aux collectivités des solutions motivantes, au bénéfice du bien-être individuel et de la performance des organisations.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Arash Saeidi (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Apr 2025 · Echange de point de vue

Meeting with Laurent Castillo (Member of the European Parliament)

1 Apr 2025 · Nutrition et Prévention

Meeting with Anna-Maja Henriksson (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Oct 2024 · Upcoming events

Meeting with Marek Belka (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

22 Nov 2023 · PSR

Response to A comprehensive approach to mental health

15 Feb 2023

It makes no doubt that Workplaces are important settings for health promotion and disease prevention. People need to be given the opportunity to make healthy choices in the workplace in order to reduce their exposure to risk. . As a matter of fact, The workplace directly influences the physical, mental, economic and social well-being of workers and in turn the health of their families, communities and society. It offers an ideal setting and infrastructure to support the promotion of health of a large audience. Therefore, the workplace has to be considered by public authorities as a central setting to tackle health issues at 360°. It is especially true in the current context. The latest round of Eurofound survey indicates a sharp decline in family time among workers: in 2020, 19% of both men and women reported that their job prevented them from spending time with their family; in 2022, 30% of men and 29% of women expressed this opinion. Furthermore, despite the lifting of most COVID-19 restrictions across EU Member States by spring 2022, mental well-being levels remain lower than they were at the start of the pandemic. This could be attributed to the war in Ukraine for which 76% of respondents expressed high or very high concern and structural factors like two-tier access to digital equipment and facilities for instance . In this context, it is worth recording that good management and good work organization are the best forms of stress prevention. Besides these basics foundations, we support a preventative approach to address intertwined health concerns at the workplace, be they physical (from safety advice to nutrition and physical activities information) or psychosocial (through work-life balance measures or well-being promotion). They do have multipliers effects from the workplace to the private circle of relatives and friends with positive impacts for national/local economy. Additionally, equality between men and women still need to be at the center of such an approach. The involvement of companies (irrespective of their size) within a global preventative strategy elaboration and implementation is essential and required. Some solutions exist to help companies to develop positive frames to implement active OSH policies. Social vouchers constitute prevention tools in several areas such as physical ability (nutrition, physical activity, relaxation, etc.) and psychosocial ones (worklife balance, home care, wellbeing, etc.). The EU approach could highlight and disseminate national practices such as tax incentives to encourage authorities to strengthen work-life balance policies through the participation of employers. Such an approach could help all employees (regardless their gender or family status) to access dedicated services in the field of care and home services. Besides positive impacts on employment and social inclusion, it may have consequences on workers productivity, health and presenteeism/absenteeism. A sectorial approach may also be relevant as the specificities of some sectors are really high and make them facing particular challenges (personal and household services for instance). Doing so could be an opportunity to develop significant actions with a high potential of efficiency and involving as many stakeholders as possible. It would be also helpful to boost the use of the possibility offered by EU funds to develop projects in the area of safety and health at work for employers and workers. It could be an occasion to test some pilot projects that would be widespread if successful. The use of new technologies should also be seen as tools to boost the implementation of measures in this field. Finally, we assume that a European legislative proposal acknowledging the multidimensional nature of this issue would be far more efficient to guarantee a powerful protection to European workers from work-related psychosocial risks than soft laws instruments that are usually proposed in this regard.
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Response to Empowering the consumer for the green transition

31 Aug 2020

Edenred welcomes the European Commission’s plan to empower consumers for the green transition. It is urgent to implement a coherent policy action to strengthen offer and demand of sustainable goods and services. We fully share the priority to help consumers to play an active role in the green transition by making informed decisions based on trustworthy and relevant information that draws their attention to more sustainable products. Edenred would like to raise attention on the role that Ecovouchers may play in this regard, together with other proposed initiatives as the harmonization of available information on products’ environmental characteristics, durability and reparability; or measures to reinforce transparency and reliability of labels/logos. The Ecovoucher is a social voucher that has been launched in Belgium in 2009, in a double crisis situation: in the aftermath of the economic crisis, citizens were in economical difficulty with low purchasing power, and the country was facing a political crisis with no government to act. In this context, the National Labour Council (gathering social partners) created the Ecovoucher with the threefold objective to increase purchasing power of workers, to encourage sustainable consumption and to boost local economy. The system has contributed to change consumers’ mindsets (through more education, an orientation of consumers towards more eco-friendly products, and better information), while keeping prices of sustainable and circular economy goods affordable. The Belgian Ecovoucher is delivered to employees by their employer (at 0 upfront cost for the state) for up to 250€/year and is exempted from social and company taxes. Employees can spend Ecovouchers in a network of merchants to access eco-friendly goods and services that are defined in a list (reviewed each 2 years) and currently divided into 3 categories: ecological products and services with an EU ecological label, sustainable mobility and leisure, and circular economy products (waste, re-use and recycling products). • Today, the Ecovoucher is distributed to 1.6 million Belgian employees (35% of the working population) from 80,000 different companies. They drive consumption in 10,600 affiliated merchants and support 3,100 jobs • They represented €242 million in business volume for local retailers in 2017 • 49% of purchases made with Ecovoucher generate additional carbon savings, which would not have occurred otherwise • Half (54%) of Belgian workers who benefit from eco-vouchers claim they take ecological considerations when making a purchase. This figure has considerably increased compared to 2017 (39%), which demonstrates a clear impact of the programme in just 2 years • In November 2019, the Ecovoucher has been selected as a good practice by the European Stakeholder Platform on Circular Economy The Belgian Ecovoucher has proven its efficiency in changing consumers’ mindset by orientating their consumption towards sustainable products and services. Edenred, world leader in the social vouchers industry and targeted spending schemes, designs and deploys social vouchers which facilitate the implementation of social policies in order to meet the needs of either companies and/or public authorities. Social vouchers have expanded around the world and steadily diversified over the past 70 years to address an increasingly wide range of needs. By giving governments and local public authorities a way to direct spending to the segments most impacted by the sanitary crisis, social vouchers can act as a lever to support an ambitious public stimulus policy, focused on rebuilding local economies in a commitment to social, economic and environmental sustainability. Edenred invites the EU Commission to promote the emergence of Ecovoucher systems (adapted to national contexts) in other Member States.
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Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

27 Aug 2020 · Patronage vouchers

Meeting with Dermot Ryan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

31 Oct 2017 · Health at workplace

Meeting with Manuel Mateo Goyet (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

12 Oct 2017 · eHealth

Meeting with Dermot Ryan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

12 Oct 2017 · Health at the workplace