Due to rising energy prices and the pending gas surcharge, consumers are faced with significantly higher energy costs. Now the first companies are announcing that they want to relieve their employees.
An example: SNS Saxonia Network Systems GmbH, an IT service provider based in Markkleeberg in the district of Leipzig. The top management informed the 70 employees on Friday that they would set up a company “hardship fund for energy costs” for employees in need, reports the “Leipziger Volkszeitung”.
“We also have low earners in the company and people who are exposed to social hardship, who are single parents or have a family member who needs care,” SNS Managing Director Frank Tornau told the newspaper. “We want to enable them to maneuver through this energy crisis reasonably unscathed.”
Tornau, who heads the CDU parliamentary group in the Leipzig city council, hopes that the federal government will find a solution so that this support can be paid out without deductions – as was the case with the Corona aid. Tornau criticized: “I’m just disappointed by our government, what ‘bungling approach is being shown here.” The one-time and still taxable energy money of 300 euros or the reduction in VAT on natural gas are just a drop in the bucket , according to the CDU member.
