Membership and Benefits

Membership

SPECIA is organized into Akava Special Branches with 24 other member organizations. We recommend you join in order to have a say on working life. We know your field of expertise so you could concentrate on your work.

Check list for paying member fees

• Our memberfee is 1 % of one's monthly salary.

The membership fees are automatically noticed by Finnis Tax Administration. Nearly a half of it is diminished when Tax Administration views one's last year's tax payments.

• The membership fee covers the services of SPECIA, Akava Special Branches and the unemployment fund.

• One could pay the fees oneself once a month. Order membership fee pank payment reference numbers. Or one could authorise one's employer to pay the memberfees. In the latter case the memberfees are deducted directly form the salary.

• One should always remember to update any changes in member information (adress, contact information, job status and for example graduation date or periods of maternity) in order to receive current newsletters and a possible membership fee exemption.

One could update membership information by these forms or via on-line updating service. Log on to the system.

• One can be exempted from paying the membership fees if one is on maternity or child care leave, if one's unemployed (and one only receive a KELA allowance) or if one's a student (and one do not accumulate the required lenght of employment). Check out the rest of the membership fee exemption cases.

• Once filling the membership application, one should note that there are different kinds of forms. The right one to choose depends on one's employer.

Our safeguarding varies due the difference of employers. For example, there are lawyers who deal with the situations concerning the private sector whereas other personnel take care of the municipal sector. By choosing the accurate form, one ensure to get the information needed. One could also update one's membership information later on.

• The membership fee for self-employed people amounts to 180 euros a year. Self-employed people and entrepreneurs must handle their unemployment security separately. Learn more about the AYT fund.