NS does not want to make any announcements about agreements with individual employees. In general, NS says that according to the code of conduct, which employees agree to when they join the company, they cannot take on additional positions that could entail a conflict of interest or conflict of interest. They are frames, so when in doubt, it is best to tune them. For example, someone who becomes a member of parliament cannot use this role to favor NS, for example by leaking a schedule of requirements for a railway line, budgets or early announcement of plans. By making agreements about this, we avoid a conflict of interest, but also the appearance that the company can influence this representative. Those agreements are then in the objective interest of both employee and employer (and also the public interest) and are then legally permitted.
The railway company does not keep records of how often they make agreements with employees about this. We think it’s fine if an employee is politically active. When employees take up an additional position as a member of parliament, we look together at how this can be organized in terms of working hours. We therefore look at how we can prevent the appearance of favoring his or her employer. We like to keep it clean. We then record that to remove the appearance. And for an objective reason (such as a potential conflict of interest) that is also allowed.