Employers seem to really need a boost to further encourage the practice of soft mobility among their employees. To believe one investigation by ecologist deputy Matthieu Orphelin, posted on his website on February 8, only 39% of CAC 40 groups have set up a mobility package for people going to work with “green” means of transport (bicycle, scooter …). “It is clearly very insufficient”laments Matthieu Orphelin.
The mobility orientation law (LOM) of 2019 requires companies with more than 50 employees to include the subject of sustainable mobility in the mandatory annual negotiations and offers employers the possibility of setting up this optional and tax-exempt package. . But companies are still going backwards. A investigation of the Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe) published in April 2021 also noted that the sustainable mobility package has only been implemented by 30% of the employers surveyed.
Supported by the French Federation of Bicycle Users (FUB), the implementation of the pro-cycling Employer Objective program (OEPV) aims to encourage companies to take an additional step in favor of soft mobility. “While we spend most of our lives at work, there was still a hole at company level in the net of aid for cycling”says Annie-Claude Thiolat, vice-president of the FUB and administrator of the OEPV program.
Launched in September 2021, the OEPV supports employers and offers financial aid to help them set up services dedicated to cycling. With, as a bonus, a pro-cycling employer label.
“Unions not yet active enough”
Annie-Claude Thiolat nuances the apparent disinterest of companies for sustainable mobility. For the vice-president of the FUB, the impetus to implement specific equipment for the practice of cycling in companies comes “both bosses and employees”. Enterprises “of all sizes” are mobilizing in favor of cycling. In contrast, “the unions are not yet active enough on this subject”believes the association manager.
As to “reserves” sometimes observed among employers, they primarily revolve around the “travel safety”. An accident on a home-work journey, even by bicycle, is considered an accident at work. “But companies are not interested in employees who come by motorcycle, when we know that this mode of transport is particularly accident-prone”points out Annie-Claude Thiolat.
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